Community Celebrates Drinking Water Week
May 5th’s Celebrate Our Drinking Water at Ragged Mountain Reservoir was a wet, but wonderful event! Folks enjoyed hearing remarks about this significant milestone from Mayor Signer, Board of Supervisor Dr. Palmer, former Executive Director Tom Frederick, and ACSA Chair Clarence Roberts. We also heard from our chief engineer, Jennifer Whitaker, about the historical significance of the area from a dam and drinking water perspective. It was a day to look back and recognize the engineers, local officials, construction workers, and citizens around the turn of the century who made Ragged...
Read MoreSpring HHW and Amnesty Bulky Waste Days Are Here!
Springtime is here, which means many of us are cleaning our nests garages of those harmful products like pesticides, paint, and other chemicals that are not safe for our trash cans. So twice a year, Rivanna Solid Waste Authority hosts Commercial and Household Hazardous Waste Days, along with Amnesty Days for large items like mattresses and appliances. We hope you take advantage of this opportunity to keep our environment safe and clean. Household Hazardous Waste Days Friday, April 1, 2016: 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm Saturday, April 2, 2016: 9:00 am to 2:00 pm Find out the Household...
Read MoreRagged Mountain Dam Reaches 100% Capacity!
Ragged Mountain Reservoir has reached its maximum capacity of 1.5 billion gallons of water, attaining an historic milestone. Thanks to an extraordinary effort and multi-stakeholder collaboration involving local water leaders, elected officials, teams of engineers and construction crews, and citizens, a plentiful water supply for our community’s drinking water needs has finally been brought to fruition. The multi-million dollar award-winning dam is a major step toward securing the drinking water, fire protection, and sanitation needs of the community for the next 50 years. It took engineers...
Read MoreLead in Drinking Water
A joint statement by the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA), the Albemarle County Service Authority (ACSA), and the City of Charlottesville (City) Drinking water has recently been the topic in the national and local news. We wish to assure our customers and the community that RWSA, ACSA, and the City are committed to providing safe, high-quality water. Protecting public health is a core part of what we do, and so we work closely with each other, the Virginia Department of Health, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, and even national research foundations. We have an...
Read MoreAn artist’s look at wastewater
A couple of weeks ago a few of us from the Rivanna crew attended the Second Street Gallery exhibit on Sustainability to see the film “Wastewater” by Jason Robinson. Of course, we were interested in the entire exhibit, but most intrigued by Jason’s film in which the headline star was none other than the substance we handle every day 24/7: wastewater! Victoria Fort, one of our civil engineers, had heard about the exhibit from a friend who jokingly said, “You work at the poop plant… This is right up your alley!” And gave her a copy of the Cville Weekly article. We prefer the term Advanced Water...
Read MoreRivanna accepts ACECVA Engineering Honor Award tonight!
Michelle Simpson, Senior Civil Engineer, and Tom Frederick, Executive Director, are headed down to Richmond for the American Council of Engineering Companies of Virginia Award Gala at the Jefferson Hotel. With the help of our engineers, Greeley and Hansen replaced a 60-year-old sewer interceptor. The Meadow Creek Interceptor, originally installed in the 1950’s, had significantly deteriorated over time causing occasional sewage contamination of Meadow Creek. The project faced an array of challenges and obstacles, including excavation and construction in close proximity to neighborhoods,...
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