iWISP to build fiber for 54 Charlesburg homes under Virginia BEED program; county updates project timelines

David Sadler, director of information technology for Caroline County, and Amber Johnson, project manager for iWISP, told the county Broadband Advisory Committee that iWISP has proposed a BEED-funded fiber deployment to serve 54 homes in the Charlesburg area that were excluded from earlier VADI grants due to provider service‑map overstatements.

The Charlesburg deployment is part of Virginia’s Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEED) program, a state‑administered allocation of federal funds managed by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. Sadler said local staff helped identify addresses for inclusion but that provider selection and grant administration are being handled at the state level.

"This is to address the 54 homes that were not really missed, but were excluded from the the VADI grant," Sadler said, describing a cluster the county characterized as concentrated though not densely populated. Amber Johnson said iWISP’s plan will build about six miles of fiber and a service loop through Partlow Road, Anderson Mill and…