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Wastewater authority tells Manassas Park it found latent nutrient‑removal capacity and proposes cost‑allocation changes
Summary
Upper Occoquan Service Authority presented a jurisdictional cost‑allocation study and a rerating study that would reallocate nutrient‑removal capacity, change how septage and reserve maintenance are billed, and create a capacity‑loaning mechanism; the authority estimated $50–60 million in projects to recapture nutrient removal capacity.
Brian Steklitz, executive director of the Upper Occoquan Service Authority (UOSA), told the Manassas Park governing body that UOSA’s recent studies recommend both billing changes and capital work to better align costs and capacity among the authority’s member jurisdictions.
Steklitz said the authority serves the City of Manassas Park, City of Manassas and parts of Fairfax and Prince William counties from a 54-million-gallon-per-day treatment plant and has a 10-year capital plan of roughly $625 million. The jurisdictional cost-allocation study recommends separating septage (hauled septic) costs…
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