Clarke
MAR 20 20
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Public Service Announcement
CCSA Expands Its Customer Base And Makes Upgrades In 2019 By Tom Bauhan Even though the Clarke County Sanitary Authority (CCSA) receives the occasional phone call regarding trash collection, the CCSA is actually responsible for the public water and sewer systems that serve the Town of Boyce, the villages of Millwood and White Post (water only), and commercial uses at the intersection of U.S. 50 and U.S. 340. As a public utility, the CCSA also manages the wastewater facilities owned by Clarke County. The CCSA is a governmental corporation created by the Board of Supervisors in 1988. Because of new residential water and sewer connections within service areas, CCSA expanded its customer base by five percent over the past two years. It now serves a total of 472 water and 363 sewer connections, representing more than 2,000 residents in southern Clarke County. “The majority of our expansion last year was again due to planned new home construction within the Town of Boyce, mostly at the
Boyce Crossing community,” said CCSA Chair Rod DeArment. “After several years of near dormant home building in the county, we’re now seeing a substantial uptick in demand for CCSA services.” The new connections benefit CCSA and the community it serves in two ways. First, new one-time connection fees, “availability fees” typically paid by the home builder prior to sale, are the primary source of funds for system capital improvements. Second, the added number of paying customers helps, through economies of scale, to mitigate the need for rate increases for all. A good example of a recent capital improvement was the replacement in 2019 of the filtration membranes and refurbishment of the membrane tanks at the Boyce Sewage Treatment Plant. This filtration system, which has about a 10-year service life, is critical for enabling Clarke County’s compliance with state and federal limits for nitrogen and
phosphorus discharge under the Chesapeake Bay Protection Program. Moreover, CCSA is already seeing payback in the form of substantially reduced chemicals needed for daily operation of the plant. While the customer base has grown, CCSA and Clarke County have ensured capacity for the long term. Thanks to the county’s investments, the permitted capacity of the Boyce plant is currently 99,000 gallons per day. “That’s nearly double our current peak demand flow even with the recent added connections,” said Mark Inboden of Inboden Environmental Services, Inc. (IES), which manages the water and sewer systems. “The county’s investments and foresight have helped ensure the Boyce facility is able to handle future demand and meet ever increasing environmental regulations in the years to come,” Inboden said. For information on CCSA, visit clarkecounty.gov or call (540) 9555185 or email ccsa@clarkecounty.gov.
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