Plans for the 454-unit Niantic Village senior housing complex come at a time when town utilities engineer Ben North said there’s little, if any, capacity remaining in the system designed to send 1.5 million gallons per day of sewage to New London’s Piacenti Water Treatment Facility. Officials said the choice is either halt all large development or figure out how to add capacity to the system. Pelletier-Niantic LLC earlier this year filed a request to secure enough access to the sewer system to accommodate 160 condominiums, 144 apartments, and a 150-bed assisted living section, as well as urgent care and radiology facilities open to the public. New London attorney Bill Sweeney represented the New York-based senior housing developer at the hearing. He framed the capacity issue as one much larger than the development itself. He estimated construction would start two years from now, with peak demand realized in three or four years.
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