For Albemarle residents who consider county vehicle decals a hassle, officials have made their lives a bit easier.

Charlottesville neighborhoods are getting behind the fight to pursue dredging of the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir, adding to a growing group of residents expressing dissatisfaction with the region’s long-term water supply plan.

Four heads of local governments and boards decided Monday to form an eight- to 10-member task force to examine the need for and scope of 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.

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

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

The estimated cost of reservoir dredging that many view as key to the future of Charlottesville and Albemarle County’s water supply is likely inflated, a consultant said Monday night.

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.

The offensive odors that regularly waft through the Belmont and Woolen Mills neighborhoods from the nearby wastewater treatment plant may soon be a thing of the past.