Drinking Water System Reinvestment Project
Sandy is a growing community, but our drinking water infrastructure is aging. We need to act today to ensure we have plenty of drinking water for our community in the decades to come.
We also need to increase redundancy in our system to make sure our drinking water supply can withstand natural disasters and emergency situations, and we need to meet Federal mandates for cryptosporidium treatment by September 2027.
That’s why we’ve launched Sandy's Drinking Water System Reinvestment Project: a long-term effort that will help us meet Sandy’s future drinking water needs using several complementary strategies:
- Repairing our facilities and reinvesting in our existing water source treatment and storage infrastructure to ensure it can function at peak effectiveness into the future
- Building new infrastructure so we can continue to have access to Bull Run water, which supplements our supply and reinforces emergency preparedness
- Keeping rates affordable - the Drinking Water System Reinvestment Project is expensive and some rate increases are needed, but we’re pursuing all possible opportunities for grant funding, low interest loans, and other cost saving strategies to minimize impacts on ratepayers
