SILVER SPRING, MD – At a 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27 presentation
to the Montgomery County Planning Board, Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission (WSSC)’s general manager will outline the challenges of providing
utility services to 1.6 million customers in the metro area – and suggest
planning strategies to ensure the effective delivery of water and sewer in a
growing region.
The presentation by Andrew Brunhart, the latest expert in the board’s
popular Growth Management Speaker
Series, will focus on the challenges aging infrastructure like water and
sewer systems pose for planners nationwide and in Montgomery County in
particular. The speaker series, which began last spring, informs the Planning
Board on topical issues as it grapples with how to shape the future of
Montgomery County.
Smart planning calculates the need for public services such as roads, schools
and water/sewer when approving new development. Providing adequate public
services make up the centerpiece of the Planning Board’s revised
recommendations for the county’s 2007 proposed growth policy, which will go to
the County Council for consideration in October.
WSSC, established in 1918, designs, constructs and operates water and sewer
systems for nearly all of Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, or more than
1.6 million customers in an area of nearly 1,000 square miles. The agency’s
planned improvements include more than 100 projects totaling $1.6 billion.
Brunhart will address WSSC’s approach to upgrade or replace aging
infrastructure and planning for new development with adequate public services.
WHO:
Andrew Brunhart, WSSC general manager
WHAT:
Presentation on meeting
infrastructure needs
WHEN:
Thursday, September 27, 2007 – 7
p.m.
WHERE:
Park and Planning Headquarters
8787 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, MD