Protecting Our Local Water Sources
Summertime means more time spent outdoors. It’s a good time to remember that our outdoor activities can impact the quality of our local water sources. Drinking water sources for both tap and bottled water include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs,...
WCSA Project Updates
Ongoing Projects: The town of Chilhowie and WCSA Regional Mill Creek Water Treatment Plant Clearwell Tank Replacement Project is currently underway to install two new 280,000-gallon clearwell tanks.
WCSA Offers Several Options for Paying Your Bill
By Holly Edwards, WCSA’s Customer Service Manager At WCSA, the service we provide to our customers is of utmost importance to us. We are dedicated to delivering reliable, high-quality, affordable, and environmentally responsible water and wastewater services, as well...
New Water Service Rate Information
WCSA is almost exclusively funded through the sale of its water and sewer services (connection and monthly user fees). Other than an occasional grant, WCSA receives no outside financial support. Water and sewer connection and monthly user fees (revenues) pay all WCSA...
A Note to Customers: Lee Highway Corridor Sewer Expansion Project
Dear Valued WCSA Customer, As previously shared, the Lee Highway Corridor Sewer Expansion Project will provide much-needed public sewer service to residents and businesses along Lee Highway between Exit 13 and the city of Bristol, Virginia. WCSA recognizes the...
WCSA Hosts Emory and Henry College Students
WCSA hosted several engineering students from Emory and Henry College on April 11, 2023. Accompanied by Prof. Mark Hainsworth, instructor of education and mathematics and director of the college’s M.Ed. Program, the students toured the Middle Fork Drinking Water Plant...
A Note to WCSA Customers
By David Campbell, Chairman, WCSA Board of Commissioners. In recent weeks, several articles have appeared in the Bristol Herald Courier regarding the Washington County Service Authority’s dismissal of its former General Manager, Robbie Cornett.
Strategic Planning Guides WCSA’s Current Course of Action for Ensuring Long-Term Provision of Services to Washington County Customers
Washington County, Virginia’s residents, businesses and industrial parks depend on WCSA’s expansive network of water and wastewater pipelines for their daily needs. One of the biggest challenges for WCSA’s distribution system, however, is the...
Dwain Gilbert Named Controller for WCSA
Dwain Gilbert has been named controller for WCSA. In his new role, Gilbert directs WCSA’s financial affairs, including the budget, financial reports and forecasts, and rates and fees, and serves as a member of the capital improvement funding, planning and leadership...
Safeguarding the Quality of our Water System
By ensuring appropriate backflow prevention at your home or business, you are protecting your neighbors as well as your family or employees Every time we fill a glass of water, prepare a meal or take a shower, we take for granted that our water will always be clean,...