Natchez Waterworks may soon be expanding its service area.

The Natchez Board of Aldermen met in an executive session for all of Tuesday’s special meeting.

But Waterworks Superintendent David Gardner said after the meeting the waterworks board and aldermen discussed options in an annual review and talked about expanding service.

“It was a general briefing,” Gardner said. “We were talking about expanding — can we afford it, do we want to pursue into these areas.”

Gardner said the waterworks was looking at expanding service into sparsely populated areas outside the city limits.

“We looked at areas within a one-mile radius,” he said. “With all the new development we want to be ready for that growth.”

The service might expand to areas like U.S. 61 South, Gardner said. And other areas they already serve, like the port area, would be made formal.

Other changes, like possible rate hikes, were “up for discussion,” Gardner said, but that was just one topic among many discussed.

“That’s along with a laundry list of things to look at,” he said.

Gardner said he would probably bring up the topic of expansion at an upcoming board of aldermen meeting.

As for Tuesday’s meeting, “I just wanted to get a feel for (how the board felt),” he said. “I didn’t sense any strong objections.”

Also on the agenda for discussion in the executive session was litigation regarding the old Natchez Pecan Factory.

Attorney Walter Brown, who is representing the city in an ongoing legal battle, said the topic didn’t come up in the meeting.

The board voted to move the time for the finance meeting before the next regular meeting from 4:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The next board of aldermen meeting will be 6 p.m. Jan. 31.