SD30 - Combined Overflows in the Commonwealth
Executive Summary: The 1989 Session of the General Assembly established a joint subcommittee (HJR 198) to (i) study the need for combined sewer overflow (CSO) controls in Virginia's cities, (ii) evaluate the financial impact of CSO control plans on localities, and (iii) determine the appropriateness of providing state grant funds to localities to assist them in implementing CSO controls. During its first year, the subcommittee received information documenting the costs of implementing CSO controls in Virginia's cities (Lynchburg, Richmond, Alexandria, and Covington) to be approximately $500 million. After reviewing the rate-making, tax-raising, and debt-issuing capacities of these cities, the subcommittee concluded that the costs of such control projects, in several instances, exceeded the locality's ability to finance the needed improvements. Recognizing that the Commonwealth as well as the federal government must play a role in funding CSO controls, the subcommittee, in its second year of operation (under SJR 68), sought to determine the likelihood and extent of federal· funding available to Virginia localities for resolving CSO-related problems. |
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