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Reston residents urge RA to help preserve RELAC cooling service as operator signals end of support
Summary
Multiple residents raised concerns at the March 27 Reston Association board meeting about the viability of RELAC (the community chilled-water system), asking the association to help find an operator or release homeowners from covenants so they can install alternative cooling.
Several Reston residents used the association’s member-comments period March 27 to warn that the community chilled-water provider known as RELAC is again at risk and to ask Reston Association (RA) for help securing continued service or freeing homeowners from restrictive covenants.
Catherine Fay, a Reston resident, told the board the current operator reported it will not continue service and that a planned sale of the utility did not go through. She cited a recent staff report from the Virginia State Corporation Commission noting that the utility uses “dated cooling equipment that requires significant repair and is in short supply,” and that the owners have indicated plans to dissolve the business. “We are running into the same situation that we did last year of the homeowners not knowing where they stand two months before the cooling season begins,” Fay said.
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