Blue Granite Water wants a court to compel the Town of Lexington to fulfill a 22-year-old agreement.

Don Denton, President of Blue Granite, formerly Carolina Water, said town officials in 1997 agreed to connect local sewage collection systems to Cayce’s regional treatment plant.

“The Town continues to stall in fulfilling that obligation,” he said.

Lexington Mayor Steve MacDougall said the town is awaiting a response from their bond attorney.

“We communicated this with Carolina Water Service on multiple occasions. We should have something to them by the end of the week,” he said.

Denton and Blue Granite’s lawsuit maintain that:

• Under the Clean Water Act’s Section 208 Plan, the town agreed to be responsible to connect small sewage treatment facilities to the Cayce plant. This includes Blue Granite’s Watergate facility on Spence’s Point on Lake Murray.

• In 1999, the town completed construction of its regional sewer line. Now, 20 years later, despite the Watergate facility’s output 100 yards away from the regional sewer line, the town is preventing the company from connecting the facility.

• In 2019, Blue Granite completed a similar connection of its Friarsgate facility in Irmo to Columbia’s treatment facility in 9 months.

“Since no resolution has come, the company is asking the court to act,” Den-ton said.