Editor's note: This version corrects the length of the payment North Stonington would make to tie into the Pawcatuck treatment plant.   

Stonington -- The Town of North Stonington is offering to pay the town $1 million to send 100,000 gallons a day of sewage to the Pawcatuck treatment plant.

The Water Pollution Control Authority is scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. today at the police station to discuss the proposal.

First Selectman Rob Simmons said Monday he has received a letter from North Stonington First Selectman Michael Urgo asking if the town would be willing to consider the plan, which could boost development along Route 2.

Simmons said the offer follows a recent agreement between the towns in which Stonington will house dogs and cats from North Stonington at the town’s animal shelter on Greenhaven Road. Two years ago, angry North Stonington school officials rejected an offer by Stonington officials to send the town’s high school students to Stonington High School instead of renovating Wheeler High School

Since the town extended sewers up Route 2 to the North Stonington line about 30 years ago, it has been open to allowing North Stonington to send sewage to the Pawcatuck plant, which has excess capacity, but North Stonington made no concrete offer.

Simmons said the WPCA will have to consider how the 100,000 gallons would affect capacity to accommodate future development in Pawcatuck as well as how it would affect the aging sewer plant. The decision to make a deal with North Stonington will be up to the WPCA.