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Contractor
breaks
ground for
sewer plant
By Stephen Dareing
Rappahannock Nows Staff Writer
A contractor hired to build a new sewer treatment plant for the Town of Washington has begun construction of the. plant on the grounds of the Avon Hall estate. The new plant is located just below U.S. 211 about 200 vards south of Avon Hall.
Rob Littleton - owner of Littleton Associates of Covington. Va., the contractor awarded the contract, to build the plant - said that they had been given notice to proceed by the town’s engineering firm WW Associates.
“We need to be working,” said Littleton referring to getting the project underway. .
They have already moved equipment on .site and have been clearing ground.
However, the contractor hired to build the collection system in the town itself - Franklin Mechanical of Kilmarnock, Va., - has yet to receive a go-ahead said Blake Franklin, vice president and project manager.
Franklin said they still have to have a pre-construction meeting with the town, but that they are “hoping to start by the first of February.”
Laura Dodd, town administrative assistant, said on Tuesday that a meeting with the contractor was tentatively scheduled for Jan. 12, but that the meeting had not yet been finalized.
Although there is yet no
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