This might have gotten lost in the blog transfer last month –

This “Best Place to Live” may increase its urban water supply NOT with mountain runoff from the Shenandoah National Park, not from the fields and forests of northwest Albemarle, not from stewardship of our watershed, but from the James River. Recently, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) assured the County Board of Supervisors that while the James River was a “different quality” of water from our local sources, this could be taken care of–the RWSA might simply “need to add more chemicals–at times–to treat it.”

Scottsville now has its own option.