Trickling away: A dam develops amid missed chances
With not a penny budgeted for dredging, the complete siltation of the Rivanna Reservoir is no longer a matter of "if" but "when." And information is starting to emerge that our local waterworks officials, having paid (and still paying) millions to an engineering firm that may have overestimated the cost of dredging, have already missed several opportunities to fix a broken dam and solve our future supply problems. Now, water customers are looking at buying a hotly debated reservoir straddling an Interstate highway and spending millions for the power to pump water nearly 10 miles across the county.
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