The president of area engineering firm Hurt & Proffitt Inc. urged the Appomattox County Board of Supervisors on Monday to start thinking about potential infrastructure projects that could be put together quickly.
Earl Dickerson told the board Monday he had been contacted by an official with the United States Department of Agriculture rural development office, who said the agency “would be flush with cash” early next year from a proposed federal economic stimulus focusing on infrastructure.
“When they start calling the engineers and saying we have cash available, you’re going to have a lot of people lining up to the trough to feed and all I could think of was the water line,” Dickerson told the board.
A proposed water line from Concord to the town of Appomattox has been the subject of deep contention over the past few years. Representatives with the town and county are slated to meet for the first time to discuss the issue Wednesday.
Dickerson, who works as an engineer for the town of Appomattox and is on the county’s planning commission, also said he received an e-mail Monday from the American Waterworks Association that urged water planning engineers to contact their congressional representatives to alert them about infrastructure projects that could be ready to go within a short time.
“That’s two timely items to come forward on the same day relative to the water line,” he said. “This is a Godsend, so to speak, whether it’s Appomattox County, Amherst County, Campbell County.”
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