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mi «u cautiiucu ucaumic v lu July 30. 2002) on the Avon Hall purchase option still a challenge to meet, Mayor Stew Willis successfully forwarded a motion before the Washington Town Council to authorize the expenditure of up to $45,500 for engineering design work on the site.
The work, to be performed by Resource International, would entail “additional field work, studies, and initial design associated with the Town’s wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal facilities,” and would enable a determination to be made on the suitability of the site for the Town’s wastewater treatment system.
More specifically. Resource’s work would consist of a field survey and mapping of the Avon Hall site, soils data gathering and design analyses for subsurface absorption (drain) fields, and financial and rate study analyses to reach conclusions as to projected costs and required rates for a Town wastewater treatment system.
Mayor Willis advised the Council that this work would also provide the elements necessary for the Town to conclude its permit application to the Virginia Department of Health and further, would enable the Town to commence its efforts to secure funding for the wastewater treatment system from the Rural Development Administration.
Resource International committed to a start date during the week of Feb. 18 and to a completion date near the end of March of this year. The submission of final application information to the Department of Health is expected by that time and their sixty day review cycle will end with time available for the Town Council to make a final decision on the Avon Hall purchase before the expiration of the extended purchase option period.
Vice-Mayor Steve Critzer seconded the Mayor's motion, and it passed unanimously, with the exception of Council member Charlie Tompkins, who was not present.
Reservoir funding
Mayor Willis reported that one private offer was received in response to the Town Council’s call for reservoir funding, but an offer by a bank beat the terms of the private offering with a 5-year, 4.24 percent loan for the $200,000 sought. Mayor Willis moved to advertise a public hearing on the loan for the Town Council’s March 13 meeting, and that motion was seconded and unanimously approved.
An estimated $291,000 will be required to construct the reservoir, and the balance of the necessary funds will be drawn from the Town’s water works reserve account.
See TOWN, Page A8
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