This afternoon the RWSA Board of Directors will continue to address the issue of sanitary sewer overflows (SSO’s) occurring in their transmission system secondary to failed infrastructure (leaky pipes) that are part of the collection system.
Fixing the pipes is the expensive option, 400 million to 2 billion dollars.
Building a new sewage pumping plant is the quick fix for SSO’s and comparatively inexpensive (labor and materials cost 25-37 million dollars).
The concern of central Virginians is the collateral damage, the loss of value to our region. Pumping plant plan pricetags discussed to date do not reflect collateral damage costs, damage to the social, economic and cultural fabric at the foot of Monticello Mountain, impacts to a city park, the primary gateway to the Rivanna River, impacts to a national historic district and impacts to a neighborhood.
The overall cost of the project, to date, has not reflected the cost of locating the pumping station in “the wrong place”.
The cost of building a new 53 million gallon per day pumping plant must include the costs to mitigate its calamitous side effects, costs not reflected in the “materials and labor” estimate.
Category: architecture
Plank Road
incarcerate
1. to imprison; confine.
2. to enclose; constrict closely.–Dictionary.com
As part of the 2011 Preservation Week events, ACHS President Steven Meeks spoke about and lead a tour of the old Albemarle County Jail. 2/10 of a mile from the Downtown Mall, grassy yard, 18 foot walls. Nowhere to plug in a TV.
brick house
The house associated with the Rives Street store was torn down last week.
The third little pig met a man with a load of bricks, and said:
‘Please, man, give me those bricks to build a house with.’
So the man gave him the bricks, and he built his house with them. So the wolf came, as he did to the other little pigs, and said:
‘Little pig, little pig, let me come in.’
‘No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin.’
‘Then I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house in.’
Well, he huffed, and he puffed, and he huffed and he puffed, and he puffed and huffed; but he could not get the house down. When he found that he could not, with all his huffing and puffing, blow the house down, he said:
‘Little pig, I know where there is a nice field of turnips.’
sunrise
There is no land in Charlottesville “zoned” for mobile homes. Too bad, they have positive aspects.
standpipe
The standpipe, Orange, Virginia. Full of water, not nukes. The faux house at the base of the standpipe contains humming electric things…
senescence
Richmond, Virginia, bounded by Azalea Avenue and I-95 to the north, Brook Road to the east, Westbrook Avenue to the south, the once shiny and new Azalea Mall, now 40+ acres of crumbling asphalt.
The proposed Albemarle Place in Charlottesville/Albemarle will be about this size.
Some commercial developments prosper for hundreds of years, some stumble and fall after a few decades.
Richmond Road
August 1974, the month Richard Nixon resigned.
By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
Richard M. Nixon
day of rest
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Greenwood, Virginia
Waynesboro, Virginia, downtown
Over the past 40 years, Waynesboro, like downtowns across the country, changed drastically due to the creation of the interstate highway system and subsequent growth of suburban communities. Downtown businesses closed or moved to the mall, shoppers dwindled, property values and sales tax revenues dropped. —Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc.