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SERCAP - Web Image - for Housing Rehabilitation Projects
Recently, SERCAP’s Housing Department assisted a low-income family of five (5) living in Albemarle County, VA, to complete a significant rehabilitation of their home. The family has lived in the home since 2014, and recently began experiencing difficulty with their septic system, which turned out to be a failed septic system. Therefore, the family was in need of a new individual household septic system, however, due to their low-income status they were unable to afford the cost of replacing the failed septic system, without suffering significant financial hardship...
SERCAP - Web Image - for TA Projects
Every year, Community Water Systems across the Commonwealth of Virginia are required to complete and distribute an Annual Water Quality Report, or Consumer Confidence Report (CCR), which provides utility customers with information about their drinking water. The federally mandated reports contain information, including: 1) source of the utility’s water, and the type of treatment it receives, if any, 2) results of all required chemical analysis, including lead and copper results, and an explanation of them, including their probable sources and potential health effects, if any, 3) violations, if any, of state or federal waterworks regulations, and what has been done to address them, 4) reporting of any unregulated contaminant monitoring, 5) a cross-connection control survey, 6) information regarding source water protections and tips for conserving water, and 7) contact information for the system’s owner/operator...
Safe and Affordable Housing. For All.
Recently, SERCAP’s Housing Department assisted a low-income senior citizen living in the City of Suffolk, VA. The client has been living in her home for 20 years, and the structure was especially in need of new windows, since the existing windows were very old and leaky. However, due to the client’s extremely low-income status, the she was unable to afford the cost of replacing the windows on her own, without suffering significant financial hardship...
SERCAP - Web Image - for Essential & Critical Needs Program
Recently, SERCAP’s Essential & Critical Needs Program assisted a low-income elderly woman in Accomack County, VA, to have the water-pump for her individual household well repaired. The client has been living in her home for 35 years, and recently began experiencing some difficulty with the water-pump for her well, leaving her without reliable access to clean, safe drinking water. However, due to her low-income status, she was unable to afford the cost of repairing the water-pump herself, without causing financial hardship...
Safe and Affordable Housing. For All.
Recently, SERCAP’s Housing Department assisted a low-income single elderly woman living in Buckingham County, VA, to gain potable water in her home. The family home was built in 1920, and the client has been living in the house for the past 94 years. Due to its age, the structure was in desperate need of extensive rehabilitation in order to bring it back into compliance with HUD Housing Quality Standards (HQS)...
SERCAP - Web Image - for Facilities Development Program
In November of 2019, SERCAP’s Facilities Development Grant Program awarded funds to the Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission (A-NPDC) to support an ongoing project in the Gospel Temple/Adams Crossing neighborhood in Accomack County, Virginia. The A-NPDC, located on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, is providing technical assistance and professional services to Accomack County as the administrator of the County’s Community Improvement Grant (CIG) from the Virginia Department of Housing & Community Development (DHCD)...