PWCSA, Virginia, Planned Capital Program Increased by 96%

FirmoGraphs keeps its clients up to date on capital plans of interest for long-term business development. We help our customers use this information to gain a competitive advantage and improve proactive conversations with their clients. We recently processed the latest capital spending plan by the Prince William County Service Authority, Virginia. Here are our observations. 

In the CIP covering the 2024-2028 fiscal year, Prince William County Service Authority detailed plans to spend $923 million on capital projects, an increase of 96% from $540 million in its 2023-2027 CIP. The current CIP has 74 line items, compared to 64 line items in the prior CIP. The table below breaks down Prince William County’s planned capital spending by business area for its last two CIPs.

*Numbers are Rounded

Increased in Planned Spending Due to New and Ongoing Projects

Almost all of the business areas increased in the recent CIP. The most significant increase is from the Sewage Pumping Station which increased by nearly 111% due to the addition of five projects including Powell's Creek Sewage Pumping Station, L08 and Featherstone Sewage Pumping Station, L16 and Force Main, worth $20 million and $18 million, respectively. The Water Reclamation Facility also increased by 88% due to the ongoing Facility Wide Improvements - Design-Build Project that increased in value by $93 million. In addition,  a new project, the UOSA Expansion - Project 60 is worth $60 million, resulting in an increase of 481% in planned spending for the Regional Utility category.

Regional Utility and Sewer Projects to Receive Biggest Investment

Prince William County has one notable project valued at over $50 million and three projects valued at over $25 million. The largest project is the UOSA Expansion - Project 60, worth $60 million, under the Regional Utility category. This project is for the SA’s portion of costs associated with the planned expansion of sewage treatment capacity from 54 MGD (millions of gallons per day) to 60 MGD at the UOSA AWRF plant in Fairfax County. Other notable projects include:

• Western Area Resiliency - Rt. 28 Bypass - valued at $37 million, under the Water Transmission category. This project involves the construction of approximately 26,000 feet of 42-inch water main from Rt. 28 in Fairfax County to the Unity Reed Booster Pumping Station.
• Occoquan River Crossing - valued at $32 million, under the Regional Utility category. This project is a construction of dual 700-foot long 42-inch steel water mains within a 400-foot long tunnel, 2,400 feet of 36-inch water main for redundancy to an existing transmission main, and an additional finished water pump at Fairfax Water’s Griffith Water Treatment Plant to facilitate a new subaqueous crossing of the Occoquan River.
• Hooes Run Sewage Pumping Station, L01, and Force Main - valued at $27 million under the Sewage Pumping Station category. The funding is allotted to replacing the existing 48-year-old Hooes Run Sewage Pumping Station to upgrade structural, mechanical (piping and pumping capacity), electrical, SCADA, HVAC system, and force main, and includes security measures and emergency storage considerations.

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