HOPEWELL, Va. (WRIC) — Hopewell City Council is weighing options for the city’s neglected water treatment plant, which reports said needs more than $20 million in capital investments to remain operational.
During a meeting held on the evening of Thursday, Aug. 7, the city council heard a report from Robert Bobb Group, which presented three options for the plant. This included hiring a new CEO, contracting out plant operations or selling the plant to a private company or entering a public-private partnership.
The report emphasized that selling the plant would transfer all “financial and operational risk to [a] private partner” and be positive for the water treatment plant…