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Stafford utilities warn PFAS rules and aging infrastructure will increase customer-funded costs
Summary
County Chief Operating Officer Chris Edwards told supervisors the utilities department faces significant capital needs — neighborhood transmission, plant upgrades and PFAS regulatory compliance — that are unlikely to be fully covered by competitive grants and will probably be paid by water and sewer user fees; staff plan a FY27–29 rate model adding reuse rates for a new reuse system.
Chris Edwards, Stafford County chief operating officer, presented the utilities department’s multi-year financial and capital plan, telling the Board of Supervisors on Nov. 19 that aging distribution mains, two upcoming plant upgrades and evolving PFAS federal and state regulations will drive capital spending and likely require customer-funded rate increases.
Edwards outlined three major hurdles facing utilities: (1) a concentrated program of '3R' renewals for aging infrastructure (the Ferry Farm neighborhood replacement project replaced roughly five miles of water…
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