A $2 million federal grant is headed to Albemarle County to fix a basic problem that’s shaped life at the Southwood Mobile Home Park for years: sewage. WMRA’s Anjoleigh Schindler reports.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville is redeveloping the Southwood mobile home community into a mixed-income neighborhood of more than a thousand homes, including duplexes, townhouses, and apartments. But the project’s newest funding will address what’s still there now: aging septic systems serving families who haven’t moved into new units yet.
DAN ROSENSWEIG: Everything south of Hickory Street is all on septic. … That septic failed long before we purchased it. So you had septic bubbling up in people’s homes … bubbling up in playgrounds where kids played…