The Board of Selectmen is expected to approve a contract with an engineering firm to perform a review of the town’s water system to determine the feasibility of selling water to Exelon, which is planning a 200-megawatt expansion of its Medway plant.
The Medway water system is already overburdened, and as a result, the town can't sell water to Exelon, which needs an average of 95,000 gallons per day for emissions control for two proposed 100-megawatt turbines at its existing 117-megawatt oil-fired facility on Summer Street. Exelon is proposing to purchase water from Millis, which would then pump the water into Medway’s water system.Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
http://www.milforddailynews.com/article/20150927/NEWS/150926483/1994/NEWS
Additional resources:
Medway Peaker Project page http://www.medwayenergy.com/about-our-project/facts/Boston Globe's "The Argument" with both sides for the story
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2015/08/13/the-argument-would-exelon-proposed-power-benefit-medway/nUCI1wACGvtYsim7XgZZZP/story.html
And the Stop Exelon Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/nopowerplantmedway
and webpage www.stopmedwaypeaker.com