Ni Pacolet - Pacolet Milliken

In the fourth quarter of 2020, Pacolet Milliken sold its Ni Pacolet Milliken wastewater subsidiary to Southwest Water Company, headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Press Release

“Ni”

is the Osage Indian word for water.

Ni Pacolet Milliken Utilities is a holding company for four water and wastewater utilities regulated by either the South Carolina or Florida Public Service Commissions. Collectively, it serves more than 45,000 customers in South Carolina and Florida. Ni Pacolet’s strategy is to continue to support its organic growth, while looking for acquisitions that fit its demographic and economic criteria. More information about Ni Pacolet may be found at www.nipacolet.com.

Ni Pacolet’s five utilities are as follows:

Palmetto Utilities, which includes the former Palmetto of Richland County territory. It is located to the north and northeast of Columbia, SC.
Palmetto Wastewater Reclamation, which includes both the Alpine and Woodlands utilities. These utilities are located to the northwest of Columbia, SC.
Hudson, a wastewater utility located in central Florida.
Tamiami, a water and wastewater utility located just north of Tampa, FL.

Greenways & Blueways

Pacolet supports multiple greenway trail initiatives including Spartanburg’s “The Dan,” The Palmetto Conservation Foundation’s “Palmetto Trail,” the “Green Crescent Trail” in Clemson, SC, and “The Thread Trail” in LaGrange, GA. All of Pacolet’s mixed-use development projects contain sidewalls and trails that connect to one of these regions trail networks.

Community Development

Pacolet Milliken has been actively working in the Drayton community since the company’s inception. The initial efforts, which focused on redevelopment of the historic mill, quickly expanded into a holistic mindset for helping the community become a place where people want to live, work and play. A master plan was created and serves as a guide to ensure that individual development projects fit together, and that the resulting community is greater than the sum of its parts.

Green Power Generation

Pacolet continues to increase the size of solar projects & the rate in which those projects come online. To date, Pacolet has 24 solar projects in spread throughout the county (South Carolina, New Mexico, Maine, and Massachusetts) generating over 60 MWs power.