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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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The 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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