mayor of Brockton pursues a plan to buy the Aquaria desalination plant for $78 million, other elected officials representing the city are exploring another way to meet the community’s supplementary water needs




“It’s just a better business decision,” Carpenter said. “It’s now or never on Aquaria. 
 What we’re proposing is 0 percent uncertainty, and 100 percent equity.”

Farwell, however, said there is some uncertainty with the Aquaria option as well. He pointed to electricity costs as an example, referring to an analysis completed last year by the city-contracted firm CDM Smith. Although Brockton would be immune from three years from electricity rate increases, after that an increase of just $0.01 in the electricity rate would spike the operating costs of the Aquaria plant by $50,000, the CDM Smith report [
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