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Sheriff tells Goochland board eastern radio coverage failed during outage; staff propose new tower and trunking upgrade (~$4.25M)
Summary
Goochland’s sheriff briefed supervisors on a northeastern coverage gap and a July outage that cut communications in the eastern county; staff proposed a new tower/transmitter and a move toward trunking systems to restore redundancy and interoperability, with an FY28 cost estimate of about $4.245 million.
The sheriff told the Board of Supervisors on Dec. 19 that a recent outage of the Creekmore tower left the eastern portion of Goochland unable to communicate over handheld radios and that the county must shore up coverage quickly as growth concentrates in that corridor.
Explaining the technical issue, the sheriff said handheld radios typically reach about 6–10 air miles depending on terrain and building density and walked the board through maps showing a northeastern area where…
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