King County will hold off starting construction on its Brightwater sewage treatment plant until mid-2006 to give a soup-making plant time to relocate.
The county had planned to start construction “sometime in 2006,” but agreed to hold off until July 1 to kick-start relocation negotiations with StockPot, a subsidiary of national soup maker Campbell Soup.
The five or so acres StockPot is located on is needed to build the 114-acre, $1.3 billion Brightwater plant, said Christie True, Brightwater’s project director.
Since the 16 miles of tunnel King County needs to build to run Brightwater’s treated effluent to Puget Sound will take longer to build than the treatment plant, sliding back the construction schedule for the plant part of the project is no big deal, True said.
Construction on the underground pipeline tunnel is scheduled to start in 2005. The 2010 opening date for the treatment plant will not be affected by the change, she said.
King County and StockPot also agreed to finalize the amount of money the county will pay to help the company relocate within 90 days. While negotiations with most of the 20 or so businesses that have to be relocated have moved forward, talks with StockPot had stalled until the arrangement was worked out Saturday.
The Brightwater plant will be located at the intersection of highways 9 and 522.
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