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[lil-bear]

Water deal

Since Norfolk already has water deals with Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Ilse of Wight.......
Is a regional water authority the next step?
Wouldn't a water deal help Hampton and NN, and even WBurg?
With an authority that serves the whole region, eventually there could be a de-salination plant from the ocean!

Edited by lil-bear, 11 July 2009 - 06:56 AM.

[varider]

lil-bear, on Jul 11 2009, 08:55 AM, said:

Water deal

Since Norfolk already has water deals with Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Ilse of Wight.......
Is a regional water authority the next step?
Wouldn't a water deal help Hampton and NN, and even WBurg?
With an authority that serves the whole region, eventually there could be a de-salination plant from the ocean!

I wish we had a regional everything. The metro is really starting to run with this regionalism thing and it does nothing but benefit the whole community. I don't really know much about water distribution, but I believe newport news has a large resevoir and they give hampton their water, but I'm not sure about that.

[CaveMaN]

They've already got a sanitary sewer authority for the region, being HRSD. It would only make sense that eventually the other public utility (water) would be under some regional jurisdiction as well.

Newport News has actually got a couple sizable reservoirs so I'm sure they do share with Hampton. AFter growing up as a kid in northern Minnesota, I still find it amusing that VB pumps its water in from like 100 miles away at Lake Gaston.

[Mobius57]

Mabe the southside, the penin seems to ahve everything under control here for now.

Anyone hear anything about that resrivor NN wants to build up past williamsburg?

[urbanfan]

Mobius57, on Jul 11 2009, 09:10 PM, said:

Mabe the southside, the penin seems to ahve everything under control here for now.

Anyone hear anything about that resrivor NN wants to build up past williamsburg?

pretty much dead in the water.  The feds lost the appeal and the corps does not want to challenge it.  Time for plan 'b'.  And yes, Newport News Waterworks is the water authority for all of the peninsula.