Community Systems Public Hearing: Loudoun Water has adopted a resolution signifying its intention to adopt the following changes to its water and wastewater Rates, Fees and Charges. More
The Loudoun County Comprehensive Plan allows rural villages, hamlets and clusters to be served by Community Water and Wastewater Systems. In these free standing systems, water may be supplied to each rural village or hamlet by its own community wells; and wastewater may be treated in the village/hamlets own community wastewater treatment facility. Treated effluent is discharged in most cases on site or, in a few cases, to local streams/rivers. Community system capacities are limited and may not be designed to provide all of the amenities offered by the central system, such as fire flow. Such amenities would be cost prohibitive for these financially self-supporting systems.
Community water systems are more prone to see water supply drops in precipitation and spikes in use. To maintain an adequate water supply for everyone, Loudoun Water suggests that customers practice the odd-even rule for using water outdoors. If your address is even numbered, use outdoor water on even-numbered days and vice versa. This step doesn't limit the amount of water you use; it just spreads the demand more evenly across the system. Call Customer Service (571.291.7880) for some tools to help you remember this rule.
The following is a list of existing and proposed communal water and/or wastewater systems:
