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Service Authority and Town of Abingdon Reach Agreement
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 According to Service Authority General Manager Robbie Cornett, “The agreement was more than three years in the making, involves the Town providing 1 million gallons of wastewater transportation and treatment capacity to WCSA and it relinquishes a portion of the Town’s service area”. Cornett went on to say, “We are thrilled to be working with the Town and to have the opportunity to bring a much needed service to this area”.
The plan is for WCSA to extend much needed wastewater collection services to the Lee Highway and Jonesboro Road corridors, westward from the Abingdon Town Limits. In doing so, the Service Authority will become the Town’s largest customer. “The Town of Abingdon truly recognizes the benefit of a customer like the Service Authority and they (the Town) have been good to work with,” says WCSA Board Chairman, Gerald Cole.
Residents of a portion of the Westwood and Westwood View communities have been anxiously awaiting the outcome of this agreement since the Service Authority began inquiring about residents’ interest in public sewer service a year ago. Westwood resident Janet Cook says that public sewer service is long overdue and that she is excited about receiving it. Raymond Shingler has expressed that many residents of Westwood have been trying to get public sewer for 20 years.
Cornett says, “Phase 1 of the four phase project is already under design and we hope to advertise it for construction bids this summer”. Other Phases will involve the community of Fox Fire, Lee Highway toward Bristol (west of the Town of Abingdon) and eventually, the Providence and Wyndale Road communities.
The WCSA serves approximately 20,500 water and 1,500 wastewater customers. The water system consists of approximately 900 miles of water line, a 2.5-million-gallon-per-day membrane
filtration plant, a 4.6-million-gallon-per-day surface water treatment plant, two springs, one well, multiple pump stations and 17 water storage tanks. The wastewater system consists of approximately 64 miles of wastewater collection lines, 24 pump stations and a wastewater treatment plant.
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