This story was updated Aug. 28.
A Hyundai official said Tuesday that the company expects to soon begin production at its electric vehicle and battery plant in Georgia, even as the Army Corps of Engineers said it would take a fresh look at the project’s affect on regional water supplies.
The Army Corps notified Hyundai on Friday that it would reevaluate an environmental permit issued in 2022 for the plant located west of Savannah, known as the “Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America.”
Although the agency initially determined the $7.5 billion project would have “negligible impacts on municipal and private water supplies,” it pointed to four permits published in July by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division that would allow the facility to draw an average of up to 6.6 million gallons of groundwater daily.
