Scroll down to see the letter from Gadsden Water Works to ADEM.
Gadsden Water Works and Sewer Board has suspended its letter saying it could accept wastewater from the proposed Pilgrim s Pride rendering plant.
The decision was announced in another letter sent Feb. 26 to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. That letter, provided by General Manager Chad Hare, said that since the board s original letter to ADEM in October, Pilgrim s has not received approval to locate or operate at the referenced address. Currently, Gadsden Water does not have sewer collection infrastructure in place to serve that address and given the absence of approval of the location and the ever-increasing uncertainty regarding the operation of the facility, and the undefined timeframe for such approvals, it cannot be reasonably expected to commit public funds to expand its infrastructure to that location at this time, the letter continued.