Appomattox town officials have one more shot to partner with the county on a water line project, according to a letter sent this week from Board of Supervisors chairman Tom Conrad.
The letter asks town officials to officially respond to the last written communication on the subject, which was in May.
“While the county is still waiting for the town to participate in this project, the time for participating as a partner is quickly passing,” Conrad wrote. “The Board of Supervisors respectfully requests a written reply from the town to the May 2008 letter no later than June 1, 2009.”
That offer proposed the county pay 100 percent of the construction and design costs of the 7.5-mile water line, install a master meter at the town limits and sell water to customers at cost. While town and county representatives met for the first face-to-face meeting in December, the discussion has been all but silent since.
Supervisors in January decided to forge ahead with the project, with or without town support, and engineering and design work is expected to be complete next month. The board has applied for at least two grants to help pay for the project and last week, the board voted to start the process to create a public service authority that will be charged with operating a county-owned water system.
“Please consider that should the town decide not to participate in this project at this time,” Conrad wrote, “it is possible that any future opportunity to the town to utilize the system would be merely as a customer and subject to the attendant availability and connection fees.”
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