Elkhart County and White Pigeon Sanitary System reach agreement

A treatment contract between Elkhart County and the board that oversees the White Pigeon Sanitary System has been reached, according to White Pigeon Township Supervisor Don Gloy.
As a result, an area designated as the State Road 13 Interchange Corridor will receive sewer service, allowing it to eventually send up to 150,000 gallons of waste daily to the White Pigeon Township plant on East Indian Prairie Road.
The agreement was the result of more than a year of negotiations. Gloy said Elkhart County officials were aware of the White Pigeon Township system, which is jointly overseen by officials from the township and the village of White Pigeon.
The plant is currently at less than 50 percent of its intake capacity, affording it the opportunity to work with Elkhart County, he added.
The project involves two separate agreements. Gloy reiterated a treatment agreement is in place, but a cost agreement remains in the negotiation stage. As a result, Gloy said it’s premature to state how much revenue the White Pigeon Sanitary System will realize.
The White Pigeon plant services parcels on Klinger Lake properties. In all, the plant currently takes in an average of 187,000 gallons of waste a day and has the unit equivalency of 1,700 customers.