This grant provided funding to the Town of Siler City to extend water service to serve the 1,802-acre CAM Site in Chatham County. At the time, the CAM Site was recognized as a North Carolina Certified Site by the North Carolina Department of Commerce, and as a Norfolk Southern Prime Rail Served Site, and had completed the Duke Energy Site Readiness Program where it was found to be suitable for automotive manufacturing. The site had received interest from a number of manufacturers that, had they chosen the site, would have created over 1,000 jobs and made capital investments of $500 million or more.
