by Tom Chillemi –
There is an elephant in Middlesex County.
The county stands at the threshold of a huge project—building a sewer system for the central and eastern portions of the county.
The cost to the county is estimated at $55 million to build just the collection systems. Another $31 million will be spent by the Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) to build 30 miles of “interceptor main” that will pump the wastewater to Mathews and eventually to Yorktown.
The details of how this can be done are complicated, but the bottom line remains the cost to Middlesex to build a system to collect the wastewater and get it to the main lines. HRSD will build about 30 miles of interceptor main lines on major highways from Saluda to Topping and Deltaville (see graphic).
