County losing investment, revenue over sewer woes

by Mark Cowling | San Tan Sentinel

Pinal County is losing big money in investment and tax revenue as problems persist at the smelly Section 11 wastewater plant, attendees at a Pinal Partnership forum were told.

Sewer treatment woes that have already stymied growth in southern San Tan Valley and are threatening to stall it in the north were the subject of the online forum on Friday. Approximately 260 people viewed it.

New construction has essentially stopped for two years on 22,000 acres, or nearly 35 square miles, in San Tan Valley over problems at Section 11, attorney Court Rich and Danny Court, senior economist with Elliott D. Pollack & Company, said.

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