Water and Sewer

Water, Water Everywhere

When water or treatment is essential to your production, the Roanoke, Virginia region offers an all-round resource solution for your needs.  It starts with an abundant supply of very high quality water.   Followed by available treatment capacity without surcharges.  All at costs well below the Virginia average.  Combine that with low costs of living and doing business and your company can seek a new level of success in the Roanoke, Virginia region.

• Capacity -- Current demand is only 43 percent of available daily supply of treated water
• Redundancy – An interconnected distribution system provides reliable supply
• Softness –Largest sources range from soft to only moderately hard and don’t require softening for a wide range of industrial uses 
• High quality  – Sourced at the headwaters of the Roanoke River so there is no upstream development to affect water quality and reports show substances within ideal goals. 
• Consistency – Large reservoirs limit impacts of storm water  
• Savings – Water rates are 11.5 percent below the Virginia average

• Capacity – Daily average wastewater flows average just over half of capacity 
• No excess strength charges – an advanced tertiary treatment system and unused capacity allow you to save on critical operating costs with no excess strength charges on wastewater
• Partnership – Easy pretreatment permitting and no-cost pretreatment permits
• Liberal limits – food industry effluents are allowed in greater concentrations eliminating or limiting the need for pretreatment 
• Savings – Sewer rates are 13 percent below the Virginia average