Bedford County
“Negotiations will continue into next month between water authorities
in Bedford County and the Roanoke Valley to extend a buy-sell agreement into a
working partnership. The discussion includes potential development of a new
water treatment plant in Bedford County that would increase the amount of water
drawn from Smith Mountain Lake and purchased by the Western Virginia Water
Authority, which services Roanoke and Roanoke and Franklin counties.
An investment from the Roanoke-based authority would shoulder some of
the Bedford Regional Water Authority’s burden in the project, which has an
early projected price tag of $34 million. A draft agreement could come before
each authority’s board as early as February. The costs and logistics for the
facility and interconnecting lines will be examined by Black & Veatch Corp.
in a study commissioned by the Bedford authority on Tuesday. The examination
includes a potential line running from the new facility in Moneta to Bedford
along Virginia 122, and then along U.S. 460 to Forest, where service is
provided through water purchased from Lynchburg.”
~Writes Alex Rohr of the Roanoke Times
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