Updated Press Release: Community Event to Celebrate Odor Reductions
The Community Event to celebrate the Odor Control Reduction project completion has been moved to Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 12:00 pm due to impending inclement weather. ## ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE: MAY 10, 2018## COMMUNITY EVENT TO CELEBRATE ODOR REDUCTIONS For Immediate Release Charlottesville, VA—May 10, 2018 With almost 10 million gallons of wastewater being treated each day at the Moores Creek Advanced Water Resource Recovery Facility, located near the Woolen Mills neighborhood, controlling the odors associated with normal operations became increasingly necessary. Therefore, in 2015,...
Read MoreSuccessful Odor Control Kickoff
Friday, July 15th Rivanna hosted an Odor Control Kickoff at Riverview Park for local officials, media, and neighbors. We shared the good news that our contractors have mobilized their equipment and construction is beginning! We also heard from City Councilor Kathy Galvin, Board of Supervisor Rick Randolph, Rivanna Solid Waste Authority Board Chair, and Woolen Mills President John Frazee. The map below was used to show the major components of this project. Our staff, local officials, and the neighborhood are definitely looking forward to having odors staying within our fence-line border...
Read MoreOdor Control Kickoff this Friday!
##PRESS RELEASE## For Immediate Release Multi-million Dollar Odor Control Project Kicks Off! Charlottesville, VA— July 12, 2016 Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) will hold an odor control project kickoff celebration on Friday, July 15th, at 10am at Riverview Park. The large-scale capital improvement project is designed to keep wastewater odors generated from the treatment processes from migrating off site from the Moores Creek Advanced Water Resource Recovery Facility located in the Belmont/Woolen Mills Neighborhood. On average RWSA treats 10 million gallons of wastewater per day from...
Read MoreOdor Control Contract Awarded!
RWSA Board of Directors awarded the Odor Control Improvements project to MEB General Contractors, Inc. out of Chesapeake, VA and authorized the Executive Director to execute the construction contract at our April 26, 2016 meeting! This means that construction is slated to begin by the end of June. The value-engineered rebid resulted in cost savings ranging from $700,000-$1,100,000 from the initial bid in December 2015; however ultimate project costs still necessitated around $500, 000 additional dollars from our capital budget in order to meet all the goals of the project. The board...
Read MoreRWSA Will Rebid the Odor Control Project
We were looking forward to the selection of our contractor this month for the odor control project. Unfortunately all of the bids came in significantly over budget. In the interest of fiscal prudence, the Rivanna engineering team decided to conduct some value engineering and then rebid this project. Value engineering is a process by which engineers look at the scope and determine the most efficient design possibly without compromising the integrity of the project. This will delay our timeline by two months so we would be looking at a bid award at the March 22nd RWSA board meeting. We...
Read MoreUpdate to Woolen Mills, Belmont-Carlton, and other Moores Creek Neighbors
Letter/Update on Odor Control 12.11.2015 Woolen Mills, Belmont-Carlton, Martha Jefferson Hospital, and Interested Citizens Each day Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority provides clean, safe drinking water to the over 120,000 residents of the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County through their water retailers. We also handle the wastewater from every household and business in our community. We effectively treat it, so that it can be safely returned to nature, at the same time recovering both nutrient and energy for beneficial uses. Handling wastewater comes with the unfortunate, yet...
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