As it was in 2006, so it is in 2010. On Tuesday afternoon, Thomas Fitzgerald of Wiley Wilson design firm presented the Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority Board of Directors with his firm’s 41-page review of plans for a South Fork-to-Ragged Mountain reservoir pipeline. The conclusion? That Wiley Wilson’s 2009 review, commissioned by the RWSA last February, shows that the pipeline "is sound and can be developed based on reasonable application of inflationary indices."
Inflation ups the estimated total cost to $62.95 million, an increase of $6 million. An estimate of easement acquisition costs jumped from $454,800 to $1.33 million, an increase "primarily related to accounting for potential loss of the U.S. 29 bypass corridor programmed west of Charlottesville." However, the project notes that a finalized route for the pipeline could reduce the number of easements required.