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Sewer to cost county $55 million; users pay more

The green areas on the map above show planned sewer service areas in Middlesex County that could be served by the Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD). HRSD’s plan is to pipe wastewater to Yorktown for treatment. Wastewater main lines (shown in blue) would run along Route 33, Route 3 and Urbanna Road and connect to a forced main (red line at bottom) that was installed about 10 years ago in Mathews along Route 198. Middlesex County would fund and build the collection systems in each service area. HRSD would build the main lines.

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). 

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