Charlottesville Virginia Real Estate

The Daily Progress has an article about swelling fees for new sewer connections (Builders to see swell in fees | Charlottesville Daily Progress)  Here’s a quote:

In Albemarle, a developer or anyone building a new house needing sewer and water connections will pay $14,079, including other fees specific to Albemarle, starting Sept. 1. This year they paid $11,790. The city of Charlottesville’s fees are generally about $1,000 less for residential units, though the proposed fees, which would increase, have not yet been adopted by the City Council.

I have a couple thoughts:

First, while $14K is a lot of money, it is paid by the user.  I’m a fan of me not paying for someone else’s sewer.  It’s high but I guess it’s expensive to run a municipal sewer system.

Second: $14K is a ton of money… I had no idea.  I recently had estimates done for a septic system and it was between $2 and $6K depending on what kind.  And that’s pretty much a one time fee.  There is some periodic maintenance but very little.  And if you need to have a lagoon because of soil quality it’s unsightly.  But it’s way cheaper.  Even cheaper still I’d bet if you could share a larger system with a few neighbors (though people with septic tend to have far-off neighbors). 

Trackback URI | Comments RSS