HD13 - Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment
Executive Summary: The Joint Subcommittee on Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment was established pursuant to HJR 7 by the 1986 Session of the General Assembly. The subcommittee was charged with the following objectives: 1. To assess the problems associated with the abandonment of water supply systems in communities and to determine the options that may be available to localities when such an abandonment takes place; 2. To review the relationship between the adequacy of water supply and wastewater treatment facilities and the economic and industrial development of a community; 3. To determine what financing alternatives are available to various localities for the construction, operation and maintenance of water supply and wastewater treatment plants. It has been estimated by the State Water Control Board and the Department of Health that achieving the water supply needs of the Commonwealth and meeting the federal standards for wastewater treatment in Virginia will together cost approximately $4 billion through the year 2000. A good portion of the work of this joint subcommittee was devoted to assessing the breakdown of these needs and analyzing the state and federal financial programs which make funding available to meet such needs. The joint subcommittee also addressed the issue of the abandonment of water supply systems and heard the specific problems which arose when such a system was actually abandoned in 1985 by the Bedford County Public Service Authority. Based on the knowledge gained thus far by the joint subcommittee in its review of the issues, several recommendations have been developed which appear in Part III herein. This document is submitted as the joint subcommittee's report on its 1986 activities. |
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