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Board votes to rejoin regional water plan

The Mathews County Board of Supervisors voted by a 3-2 margin Tuesday to approve a service agreement with the Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission that allows the county to rejoin the Regional Middle Peninsula Water Supply Plan.

Supervisors G.C. Morrow and Charles Ingram voted against the agreement.

Under terms of the county’s reinstatement in the plan, Mathews will pay $5,182.45 to the MPPDC and $6,675 to EEE Consulting Inc. of Mechanicsville, the company that prepared the plan. These amounts, totaling $11,857.45, are for removing Mathews from the plan and subsequently reinstating it.

They are in addition to the original $6,058 that MPPDC had in retained local funds from the 2011 Water Supply Plan Project that were already slated for expenditure on the update. In addition, all counties participating in the plan are required to pay $1,500 more at the end of the project period.

The decision to rejoin the plan came after heated discussion last month between board chair...

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