Department of Community & Economic Development:
Infrastructure Development
Infrastructure Development
For a city, a county, or a region to experience economic vitality, adequate infrastructure is a prerequisite. The ADD has long sought to assist its member local governments with the development of adequate infrastructure. While highways may immediately come to mind at the mention of infrastructure, funding for roads and bridges, more often than not, comes from State Government or from a combined federal source. The ADD’s role in transportation infrastructure has focused on project identification and project ranking—for implementation by others. Addressing the needs of water and wastewater infrastructure, however, is a local responsibility. For the most part, local leadership acknowledges the direct link between adequate water and wastewater infrastructure and economic vitality.
The ADD’s Department for Community of Economic Development has long sought to address issues related to
- water source and water supply
- water treatment
- potable water storage
- water distribution
- fire protection availability through the water system
- adequacy of rates
- filling water service voids
- connectivity, cooperation, and coordination
- wastewater collection and pumping
- wastewater treatment
- discharge permit compliance and pollution abatement
- adequacy of rates
- filling service voids, and
- connectivity, cooperation, and coordination.
The ADD attempts to monitor annually water treatment plant adequacy in terms of capacity. Also monitored is wastewater treatment adequacy in terms of capacity along with wastewater discharge permit compliance. Changing environmental regulations often mean that yesterday’s determination of adequacy turns to a determination of deficiency today.
A leader among the 15 area development districts, data support the conclusion that community water service is available to 99.7 percent of the ADD’s population of three quarters of a million people. Also a leader in the availability of community wastewater service, surveys indicate that 72 percent of the population of the ADD has community wastewater service access.
Of primary importance to the region over the next several years is the successful completion of an ongoing effort to act decisively and quickly in a multi-county effort to deal with the water supply deficit that exists in large portions of the Area Development District. The Bluegrass Water Supply Commission, a 10-county entity, continues to work collaboratively with the region’s largest water utility, the Kentucky-American Water Company, to achieve a cost-effective solution to this problem which has long affected the region.
Contact
Don Hassall – Director of Infrastructure Development
699 Perimeter Drive
Lexington, KY 40517
(859) 269-8021
(859) 269-7917 (FAX)
dhassall@bgadd.org
David Duttlinger – Director Department of Community and
Economic Development
699 Perimeter Drive
Lexington, KY 40517
(859) 269-8021
(859) 269-7917 (FAX)
dduttlinger@bgadd.org
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