The Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission has tabled a request by Mathews County to rejoin a regional water plan.

The commission has given Mathews County 30 days from its meeting last Wednesday to consider possible steps needed to actually come back into the plan.

Beth Johnson, finance director for MPPDC, said Friday that the Mathews County Board of Supervisors will be notified prior to its July meeting about possible extra costs that the county may incur. That’s because a consultant has been working on the regional plan without figuring Mathews to be a part of it, she said.

The extra costs had not been determined, Johnson said Friday.

In May, the Mathews supervisors voted not to participate in the Department of Environmental Quality-mandated 2018 update to the existing Water Supply Plan under an agreement with MPPDC.

A local citizens group, led by Mathews resident Carol Bova, had offered to come up with an individual water supply plan for Mathews. But the Mathews bo...