City of Oxford

Amount Appropriated?

$3.5M

FFID tracks stages 1–2 — stages 3–5 vary by agency, assistance type, and earmark structure.

Project Description

This project is vital to communities within rural Vance, Granville, Warren, and Franklin Counties. These historically rural, underserved, and economically disadvantaged counties are struggling to meet current needs as well as set themselves up for future growth which cannot happen without an adequate water supply. The future direction and growth of these 4 counties is directly linked to this project. The project will rehabilitate, replace, and expand aging and select equipment/facilities at the KLRWTP to bring the facility to a reliable 20 MGD capacity. While the Public Water Supply (PWS) Section of the NC DEQ has authorized high-rating of the existing filters at KLRWTP, yielding a total filtration capacity of 13.97 MGD with all filters in service, it has also notified KLRWS that after rehabilitation/replacement improvements are made to the existing 14 MGD system, the plant will be down-rated again to 10 MGD. The maximum day demand for the past three years has been ~ 9.6 MGD. If downrated, the plant will exceed the 80% guideline requiring expansion; eg \u2013 the project is justified to meet not prospective, but current demand. Expanding capacity to 20 MGD will supply future average daily demands of the Partners and the wholesale purchase systems that rely on the KLRWTP. Much of the equipment and facilities at the plant have been in use for more than nearly 50 years and to maintain a reliable drinking water system they must be improved or replaced by this project. KLRWS Partners have adjusted rates to provide sustainable funding for future facility needs, but economic downturns since 2007 have impacted its rural customer capacity for drastic rate hikes. This project will rehabilitate aging treatment facilities, improve regulatory compliance for meeting drinking water standards, and expand the capacity of the plant from its current capacity of 10-million gallons per day (mgd) to 20-mgd, while setting the stage for stable maintenance and self-reliance henceforth.