HRSD, your regional wastewater treatment utility is planning a project in your neighborhood to construct a pump station and an offline storage tank that will be used in high flow events. The pump station and storage facility will help to ensure HRSDs ability to protect the public’s health and the environment. The answers to some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are provided here.

Project Overview

--Utility Work to Continue--

HRSD, your regional wastewater treatment utility, will continue work to install a sanitary sewer pipeline along Wythe Creek Road. This work should take place primarily between the hours of 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday – Friday. 

--Utility Work--

HRSD, your regional wastewater treatment utility, is undertaking a project to replace valves and associated piping, near the intersection of Commander Shepard Boulevard and Bellgrade Drive (please refer to the map on the back of this notice). This effort will provide HRSD flexibility to make changes to the systems operation during maintenance or emergencies. The work will take place primarily between the hours of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday – Friday. 

Bainbridge Boulevard Construction Start – October 2023

Bore Pit Excavation Start – October 2023

--Utility Work to Begin--

HRSD, your regional wastewater treatment utility, will begin work to install a sanitary sewer pipeline near the intersection of Robin Hood Road and Kansas Avenue. This work should take place primarily between the hours of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday – Friday.

--Potholing of Utilities to Occur--

HRSD, your regional wastewater treatment utility, is working to install a new sanitary sewer pump station and rehabilitate existing sanitary sewer and manholes in the Phoebus neighborhood. This work should take place primarily between the hours of 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday – Friday.

--Utility Work to Begin--

HRSD, your regional wastewater treatment utility, will begin work to rehabilitate the sanitary sewer pump station on Thompson Avenue and rehabilitate existing sanitary sewer pipelines and manholes in the Town of West Point and the Town of Urbanna. This work should take place primarily between the hours of 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday – Friday.

--City of Portsmouth--

Smoke testing of the sanitary sewer system will take place within the Arcadia Heights, Fairville, Highland Biltmore, Highland Park, North Truxton, and Truxton areas in the City of Portsmouth during the month of October.