
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 5, 1990                   TAG: 9004040878
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: PETER MATHEWS NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

SEWER CAPACITY BOUGHT FOR DEVELOPMENT NEAR RADFORD

Montgomery County has purchased sewer capacity to serve future development along the Virginia 177 corridor, where Radford Community Hospital plans to move in the next few years.

The county's Public Service Authority agreed Monday night to pay $580,500 for 250,000 gallons of Pulaski County's excess capacity at the Peppers Ferry Regional Wastewater Treatment Authority.

The Public Service Authority will use two certificates of deposit totaling about $385,000 as part of the payment and will borrow the rest.

Construction on a sewer line to serve the area is expected to start in a couple of weeks, said Gary Gibson, Montgomery County utilities director.

In the meantime, county officials are negotiating with the Radford Army Ammunition Plant to use that excess capacity temporarily to treat glycol waste from the arsenal.

The arsenal uses the liquid as a protective material when it transports products, said Charles Maus, executive director of the treatment authority. It currently ships the waste out of state, which is getting increasingly expensive.

If agreement is reached, the Peppers Ferry plant would treat 4,000 gallons a day.

Montgomery County is involved because the wastewater is produced at the part of the arsenal in the county.

The Public Service Authority also recommended that the Board of Supervisors adopt an ordinance covering the pretreatment of waste.

by CNB