by Tom Chillemi –
More than three years into planning a sewer system for Middlesex County a question remains: How will the county pay for a sewer system currently estimated at more than $41 million, since revenues will not cover the costs?
Middlesex has applied for a total of $18 million in grants. On Tuesday, Jan. 3, the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution asking the Virginia General Assembly for $11 million in grant funding through the Direct Appropriations Program. At a previous meeting the board asked the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality for $7 million.
“If we get all of this (grant money) it will be a miracle,” County Administrator Matt Walker told the board at its work session on Friday, Jan. 6.
“Sewer is a losing proposition without subsidies.” – Ted Henifin, HRSD manager, Jan. 11, 2017
Sewer service
is being planned for Deltaville, Hartfield, Topping, Saluda, and Cooks Corner with the county paying for the collection systems.
Deltaville will cost the most to build — about $28 million. If an estimated 650 Deltaville sewer customers sign up and pay the proposed $10,000 minimum connection fee, this $6.5 million in revenue will reduce the county money needed to about $21.5 million…
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