Sending Middlesex County wastewater to distant treatment plants at Williamsburg and Yorktown is a long way off.
With costs escalating, the Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) will be looking at sending wastewater from Urbanna and Saluda to West Point and on to Toano, north of Williamsburg. This would eliminate Urbanna, Saluda, and West Point treatment plants, reported John “Jay” Dano, chief of planning and analysis at HRSD, to the Middlesex Board of Supervisors on May 6.
This Middle Peninsula Master Plan would require laying at least 30 miles of forced main pipes—19 miles from Urbanna to West Point along Routes 17 and 33, and then 11 miles to connect to the existing forced main in northern James City County. From there it would flow to HRSD’s Williamsburg Treatment Plant.
