Fauquier to fund $3.7 million Vint Hill plant expansion

By Don Del Rosso

Fauquier's board of supervisors this month agreed to spend $3.7 million to expand the wastewater treatment plant at Vint Hill near New Baltimore.

The expansion would add 200,000 gallons per day of treatment capacity, half of which the county would dedicate for economic development use in the New Baltimore Service District.

Fauquier's industrial development authority (IDA) would control the taps for economic development.

The Fauquier County Water and Sewer Authority (WSA), which owns and operates the plant, would sell the rest of the county's capacity on a first come, first served basis.

Phase one of the plant's expansion plan increased treatment capacity to 600,000 gallons per day.

Fauquier will help fund phase two of the expansion plan.