The last significant rain in the area came on a day when no one wanted it — July 4, when 2 inches fell in the area.

A 13-member task force is ready for long discussions about dredging the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir.

The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority will join a consortium of wastewater treatment facilities that aims to reduce Virginia’s nitrogen and phosphorous pollution into the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority Board of Directors has moved one step closer toward fully endorsing a dredging study on the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir.

City councilors are poised to reaffirm their support tonight for the community’s 50-year water supply plan, potentially drawing to a close one of the Charlottesville area’s most heated policy debate in years.

Three of the five members of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority had to recuse themselves Monday from voting on part of its $22.1 million budget because of conflicts of interest.

Charlottesville and Albemarle County residents’ water and sewer bills would go up to fix aging infrastructure and pay for the area’s long-term water plan under rates the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority set Monday.

Recent rainfall has allowed the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority to lift Charlottesville and Albemarle County’s 10-month drought watch.

John Martin says he’s seen it all before.
As criticism of Charlottesville and Albemarle County’s long-term water supply plan is now seeing once-united environmentalists pitted against one another, Martin says all the new arguments are actually old ones.