# 2024-10 Project Stratus Utilities Site Visit On **October 2, 2024**, the [[Conway Development Corporation]] economic-development team hosted the data-center developer ("the Company") for a [[Project Stratus]] utilities site visit and a tour of [[Conway Corporation]]'s **Tupelo Bayou Wastewater Treatment Plant** — the documented start of the project's hands-on utility-and-cooling-water coordination, more than five months before the public April 2025 MOU vote. Documented (Tier-1) only by the 2026-05-29 Conway Corporation production. ## Sources - [[Project Stratus Utilities Meetings and Site Visit]] — the [[Corey Parks]] organizing thread and the formal one-page agenda (`Project Stratus Detailed Agenda 10.2.24`), from the [[2026-05 Conway Corporation Produces Project Stratus Records|Conway Corporation production]]. ## What happened [[Corey Parks]] (Chief Economic Development Officer, CDC) convened the visit. The agenda: "9:00 Utility Introduction / 9:15 **Medium Voltage Discussion** / 10:00 **Water, Wastewater, and Cooling Water Blowdown Discussion** / 11:30 Working Lunch / **Tupelo Bayou Wastewater Treatment Facility Tour**." Attendees named on the agenda included: - The unnamed "**Project Stratus Team**" (the developer's representatives). - [[Conway Development Corporation]]: [[Jamie Gates]] (Executive Vice President) and [[Jenifer Kendrick]] (General Counsel). - The [[Conway Corporation]] team. - [[Garver]]: Paul Strickland, P.E. (Senior Project Manager, Arkansas Water Team). - **[[Raven Johnson]] — Project Manager, [[Arkansas Economic Development Commission]]**. The day before, Garver had circulated the engineering question set on cooling-tower supply and blowdown (constituent limits, the corrosion inhibitor SD2535, treatability testing, and "the company's stance on having its own treatment and NPDES discharge permit to the Arkansas River"). Access to the meeting was conditioned on signing the project NDA. ## Significance - **The corpus's first Tier-1 placement of [[Arkansas Economic Development Commission|AEDC]] at a Project Stratus working meeting.** The [[2026-05 City of Conway Produces Project Stratus Records|City of Conway production]] produced no AEDC correspondence; this agenda names AEDC's Raven Johnson on the TBWWTP tour — concrete evidence AEDC holds responsive records, sharpening the still-outstanding AEDC FOIA. - **The cooling-water scheme was engineered from the start.** The site visit anchors the [[Tupelo Bayou Treated-Effluent Cooling]] plan in October 2024 — well before the public MOU disclosed it. ## Notes The developer's on-site representatives are not named in the agenda ("Project Stratus Team"). The visit predates the corpus's prior earliest Stratus reference (2025-01-21, the City production's EMH&T stormwater email).