Brooke County Commissioners approve BHJ-MPC requests to help water customers

BROOKE COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF)

Brooke County Commissioners has approved two requests from the Brooke, Hancock, Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission that will help a lot of water customers.

The BHJ requested $175,000 from the ARPA funding to go to Brooke County PSD on Colliers Way and $260,000 ARPA dollars to go to Washington Pike PSD for valves and flush hydrants.

Commission President A.J. Thomas says most of their ARPA funds have gone towards crucial water and sewer projects.

“We can talk about development till we are blue in the face here in Brooke County but without providing these necessary services, water and sewer, those are some of the most basic things that we have to have in order to get development in here. It’s going to benefit over 450 residents out there on the Pike. Hopefully be able to provide better water. For anybody who ever lived at the end of a water line. They know the importance of having a flush valve and right now they don’t have that. So like I said this is very important.”

A. J. Thomas – President, Brooke County Commission

Thomas says they still have additional ARPA funding left so they are looking to fund some additional projects.

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