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CCUSA warns of wastewater bottlenecks, lays out master-plan path and possible rate increases
Summary
At a joint meeting, CCUSA leaders told Campbell County supervisors the water system is nearing the 10,000-customer threshold and wastewater interceptors along US-29 need near-term upgrades. Staff outlined options (buy interceptor capacity, upsizes, or build a new plant), large capital estimates and illustrative rate increases to pay debt service.
Campbell County officials and leaders of the Campbell County Service Authority (CCUSA) met in joint session to review the authority's water and wastewater systems, long-range master planning and financing options. Jeff Wells, CCUSA executive director, and CCUSA wastewater lead Tim outlined capacity constraints, multi-decade planning needs and preliminary cost estimates for major upgrades.
Wells said CCUSA operates the Big Otter River water treatment plant and several groundwater systems and currently records about 9,313 water service connections, approaching the Environmental Protection Agency's 10,000-customer threshold that triggers higher reporting and resiliency requirements. "We currently produced last month, about 2.858" (reported on CCUSA slides), Wells said, noting the plant's upgraded rating is "a little over 4.1 million gallons per day." He said the authority has a water-purchase contract with the City of Lynchburg that comes up for renewal in 2027 and that Lynchburg indicated it will renew but seeks to renegotiate terms.
On the wastewater side, Tim described a system that depends heavily…
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