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Board adopts water-code ordinance creating exclusive service district for Middlesex County Water Authority
Summary
Supervisors approved a water-code ordinance declaring Middlesex County an exclusive water-service district for the county water authority; staff and the authority said the move protects local control but homeowners urged explicit carveouts for existing HOA/private systems.
The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors voted to adopt a water-code ordinance establishing the county as an exclusive service district for the Middlesex County Water Authority.
Staff and water-authority officials said the ordinance is intended to help the county plan, finance and operate a centralized public water system and to guard against large private providers expanding without local input. Greg Chambers, speaking for the authority, described the investment to date: "We spent $29.5 million building this system," and said the authority's goal is to reach sufficient hookups to keep rates lower for existing customers. Board members and staff repeatedly said existing systems (including the town of Urbana and certain private systems such as Aqua) are excluded under state law and the draft language, though several homeowners said the code should explicitly restate those exemptions in plain text.
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