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Residents, developer ask Montgomery County PSA to seek easement for Merrimack Road sewer extension
Summary
At a Montgomery County Public Service Authority meeting, an engineer and property owner asked the PSA to request an easement from CHP (the managing agent for the New River Home Trust) to extend public sewer along Merrimack Road to serve five new lots and about 16 nearby parcels; the owner offered to pay appraisal, design and construction costs.
John Veil, an engineer with Foresight Design, told the Montgomery County Public Service Authority at its December meeting that his client seeks a county-requested easement to extend public sewer up Merrimack Road to serve five proposed lots and other nearby homes that currently rely on aging septic systems.
Veil said the proposed line would extend from an existing Blacksburg VPI services sanitation authority sewer line and that the extension crosses land developed as Strubel's Ridge and controlled by CHP, which he identified as the managing agent for the New River Home Trust. He said the alignment lies in floodplain and open space with limited development value and that the developer would pay for engineering and construction and then dedicate the line to the PSA as a public sewer.
“I'm an engineer with Foresight Design. I'm here, representing Price Real Estate and Triple J,” Veil said,…
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