Rivanna Pump Station
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The Rivanna Pump Station is a booster station operated by the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority that supplies the Moores Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant with untreated sewage via a 2,600 long 36-inch diameter force main. The station was built between 1979 and 1981, and has a capacity of 24.5 million gallons a day, as of 2011.
Location
The pump is located at the corner of Chesapeake Avenue and Riverside Avenue in Charlottesville's Woolen Mills neighborhood[1].
Expansion
The RWSA is planning to expand the station's peak capacity to 53 million gallons a day as part of a collaborative effort with the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County to reduce the amount of stormwater that infiltrates the regional sewer system. [2] However, residents of the Woolen Mills' neighborhood are concerned the expansion will increase odors in their community. [1] The firm Hazen and Sawyer has been hired to serve as the engineering consultant. [3]
Four sites have been under consideration for the upgraded pump station and each has a preliminary “concept level” cost estimate:
- Concept A ($25 million): upgrade the pump station at its existing location
- Concept B ($29 million): up the Rivanna River in Riverview Park
- Concept C ($37 million): downstream near the old Woolen Mill and Moores Creek
- Concept D ($34 million): across the Rivanna River below State Farm Insurance[3]
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The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has issued a consent order mandating that an option be selected by December 31, 2011. [4]
City Council has expressed its opposition to Concept A and its preference for Concept D [5]. The ACSA and the Board of Supervisors want the RWSA to leave Option A on the table. [6] [7]
However, at the April 2011 meeting of the RWSA, the board of directors voted 4-1 to direct Hazen and Sawyer to further evaluate Option C after representatives from State Farm Insurance indicated they plan to expand parking at their facility in the option D location. [8]
At the May 2011 meeting of the RWSA, Hazen and Sawyer was directed to study options A, D and a hybrid E option which would involve driving a tunnel to the wastewater treatment plant. [9] Cost estimates will be available in the fall.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Web. Smell you later? Woolen Mills closes its nose to expanded treatment station, Brian Chidester, C-VILLE Weekly, Portico Publications, retrieved January 4, 2011.
- ↑ Frederick, Thomas L. STATUS REPORT: ON-GOING PROJECTS. Rep. Vol. April 27, 2010. Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority. Web. 27 Apr. 2010. <http://www.rivanna.org/documents/agendas/agenda_apr27_2010_doc6c.pdf>.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Web. Woolen Mills residents voice concerns about sewer pump station project, Brian Wheeler, February 17, 2011, retrieved February 18, 2011.
- ↑ Web. State Water Control Board Enforcement Action - Order by Consent Issued to Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, retrieved April 28, 2011.
- ↑ Web. City Council wants sewer pump station upgrade to occur outside Woolen Mills neighborhood, Sean Tubbs, retrieved March 21, 2011.
- ↑ Web. County sewer authority wants all options on table for new pump station, Sean Tubbs, Charlottesville Tomorrow, March 18, 2011, retrieved March 18, 2011.
- ↑ Web. [County wants Woolen Mills option on table for Rivanna Pump Station http://cvilletomorrow.typepad.com/charlottesville_tomorrow_/2011/04/pump-station-update.html], Sean Tubbs, Charlottesville Tomorrow, April 7, 2011, retrieved April 7, 2011.
- ↑ Web. Site selected for study for sewer pump station, Sean Tubbs, Charlottesville Tomorrow, April 27, 2011, retrieved April 28, 2011.
- ↑ Web. Report on Ongoing Projects, Thomas Frederick, RWSA Executive Director, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority, July 26, 2011, retrieved July 22, 2011.