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| WATER
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The Emporia-Greensville
area has a water supply available that is capable of accommodating
prospective industrial and commercial demand.
Emporia owns
and operates a municipal water system that has a capacity of
2 million gallons per day (MGD). The current daily use averages
1 MGD. The system has a 500,000 gallon capacity ground storage
facility at the treatment plant, and 1 million total capacity
in elevated storage tanks located at strategic points on the
distribution system.
The Greensville County Water
and Sewer Authority supplies water to a portion of the County
south, west, and north of Emporia, and to the Town of Jarratt.
The water system has a 1.7 million gallon total capacity in storage
tanks.
The
Authority
assumed operation and maintenance of the Town of Jarratt’s water
system which assists in expanding the service area to the north.
The Greensville County
Water and Sewer Authority water
treatment plant has a capacity of 2 million gallons per day with
an average daily use of 1.1 million gallons per day.
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| SEWER
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The Emporia-Greensville
region is served by the following wastewater treatment facilities:
Emporia operates
a 1.5 million gallon per day facility, which has an average daily
use of 1 million gallons per day. This facility provides service
to the City of Emporia.
The
Greensville County Water and Sewer Authority operates
three treatment facilities rated at 160,000 gallons per
day each, another treatment facility rated at 750,000
gallons per
day, and a smaller one rated at 36,000 gallons per day. Expansion
at facilities is available.
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ELECTRICITY
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Emporia-Greensville area is provided electricity by Dominion
Virginia Power and Mecklenburg
Electric Cooperative. Dominion
Virginia Power provides service to Emporia and suburban areas
in Greensville County. Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative serves
Emporia Industrial Park and Greensville County Industrial Park,
and offers Time-of-Day Rates and Interruptible Rates to its industrial
users.
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| TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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| Verizon,
a leading provider of voice, data and video communications, offers
advanced telecommunications services to businesses and residential
customers in Emporia and Greensville. The City of Emporia and Greensville
County are served by state-of-the-art digital technology through
switching centers in Emporia, Jarratt and South Brunswick. More
than 53 miles of high capacity fiber optic cable is installed in
Greensville County, including a redundant fiber toll route that
provides uninterrupted long-distance service for all telephone
customers. These enhancements provide state-of-the-art quality,
speed, security
and reliability of telecommunication services in the county.
Telpage Inc. is
headquartered locally and is a comprehensive provider of corporate,
institutional
and residential communications solutions. Services
include cellular, local and national paging, two
way radios, satellite television, Internet access
(broadband wireless, DSL, satellite, frame relay,
private point to point, dialup), computer network
infrastructure & system integration, web site
hosting, email management and network security. Telpage’s
information technology staff includes certified Cisco,
Microsoft, A+ and wireless engineers. Telpage offers
a broad range of communications services with experience
in nearly every field from health care to banking
and entertainment to industrial and commercial development.
For
additional information visit www.telpage.net or
call 434/634-5100.
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