Topics of discussion at Tuesday night’s Gloucester Board of Supervisors’ work session, held in the colonial courthouse, included a utilities update and a discussion about homeowners possibly encroaching on Gloucester County property
Utilities update
Gloucester’s Director of Public Utilities Katey Legg provided the utilities update.
Legg said her presentation was going to be “very information heavy” and included current projects, an ARPA project update, pump station and capacity concerns, water treatment plant projects and DEQ violations.
For current projects, Legg talked about inventory of lines that may contain lead, those that do not and those that are currently unknown, which is a mandate by the EPA that started in 2021. She said that utilities across the country had until Oct. 16 to submit an inventory of all county- and privately-owned service lines.
“We submitted our inventory and we were able to take all of the buildings that were built after lead service lines were banned and w...