Multiple Lebanon residents urged the committee to consider lower-footprint treatment technologies and to commission an independent, long-term economic impact analysis that accounts for property values and lifetime community costs before advancing any site.

More than a dozen residents and at least one county commissioner used the public‑comment period to object to locating the new wastewater plant on rural parcels around Lebanon, citing property‑value loss, environmental harm, pipeline easement safety and the specter of eminent domain.