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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...

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...

Currently, SERCAP’s Regional Program is assisting the Brown Grove Preservation Group with a water sampling project near the Town of Ashland in Hanover County, Virginia. Brown Grove, a primarily African American community, consists of a total of 100 households located on both sides of Exit 89 of I-95 in eastern Virginia...

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...

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)...

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)...

Recently, SERCAP’s Certified CDFI (Community Development Financial Institution) Loan Fund assisted a low-income single man in Montgomery County, VA, to complete critical repairs to the well at his home. He had been experiencing difficulties with his well, and as it turned out, the well pump kept locking up and the pressure tank needed to be replaced...

Recently, SERCAP’s Housing Department assisted a low-income senior citizen living in the Town of Dillwyn in Buckingham County, VA, as part of the Dillwyn Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) project.

Since 2015, SERCAP has been providing Technical Assistance (TA) to the Town of Port Royal in Caroline County, VA, in order to provide both temporary assistance and a long-term solution, to transform the Town’s dilapidated and fiscally distressed water system, to one with new facilities and a mana