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Study: water — not sewer — is Nelson County’s main constraint for Larkin property development
Summary
A CHA Phase I engineering analysis presented July 9 found the county-owned Larkin master plan could need up to 89,480 GPD for planned facilities and that existing treated water capacity leaves only about 21,341 GPD of spare water without expanding sources; sewer treatment capacity was short by roughly 8,700 GPD.
CHA consultant Stevie Steele presented a Phase I water and sewer capacity analysis for Nelson County’s Larkin property, telling the Board that full-build projections for the sites shown on the draft master plan would require roughly 89,480 gallons per day (GPD) for the listed facilities and a projected build-out demand of about 232,739 GPD if all potential development areas were realized. He said the County’s current treated sources — about 50,000 GPD from groundwater and 100,000 GPD from Black Creek surface water — leave only about 21,341 GPD of capacity without tapping new sources.
"If we do not expand the County’s water capability then that was all they had currently," Steele said, describing how CHA used three years of peak demand data and a 1.5…
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