TRINITY – The Trinity City Council will consider financially supporting a preliminary engineering sewer study that may be conducted with the city of Archdale and Randolph County.

At its preagenda meeting Tuesday, the council decided to place the issue on its regular monthly meeting agenda for next week.

In 2007, the Archdale and Trinity city councils agreed to participate financially in a similar study in an amount not to exceed $22,000. That study was to be funded jointly by Archdale, Trinity and Randolph County, as well as a $40,000 planning grant from the N.C. Rural Development Center. The grant application wasn’t approved and the effort was dropped.

The Archdale City Council, however, recently allocated $25,000 toward the preliminary engineering study that would explore the idea of providing sewer service to the southeast of Trinity. The funding of the study also will need $25,000 each from the Trinity City Council and Randolph County Board of Commissioners, according to Randy McNeill, city engineer for Trinity.

“It encompasses the area south of the city limits where the treatment plant would need to go,” McNeill said of the study. “It includes growth areas for Archdale, Trinity and Randolph County.”

Ann Bailie, Trinity’s city manager, previously said a wastewater treatment plant located south of Trinity could save a lot of money because wastewater currently is being pumped to Thomasville. Bailie said the study should take less than one year to be completed once engineers are given the go-ahead.

Jerry Yarborough, Archdale’s city manager, said last month the study would “benefit both communities” by providing “wastewater sewer service to encourage economic development.”

The Trinity City Council will decide allocating funds towards the study at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Trinity City Hall Annex, 6703 N.C. 62. The Randolph County Board of Commissioners has yet to consider an allocation for the study.

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