The Stuart Town Council will hold a public hearing at its Wednesday, September 18 meeting to give the public notice of the town’s intention to convey two pieces of land to Patrick County.
First, the town proposes to convey free of charge a tract of approximately 0.342 acres to the Patrick County Public Service Authority (PSA). The tract is commonly known as the Campbell Farm Loop Pump Station and bears the County PIN 4911-9-72.
The town also proposes to convey without charge a tract of approximately 0.06 acres known as the Rich Creek Pump Station to the Patrick County PSA. A portion of that tract of land has the County PIN 4911-57.
Stuart Town Manager Bryce Simmons said he got a call from Patrick County Planning Commission Clerk Teresa McCormick about three weeks ago, and was told it was determined that the town held a couple of pump station lots that are actually PSA facilities.
“So, we are just trying to transfer over the pump station lots out of the town’s name into the PSA’s. It’s an administrative function,” he said.
Patrick County PSA Executive Director Mark Vernon said when the town did its last annexation it had new boundaries drawn.
“There was an annexation agreement between the town and the county. In that agreement, the water and sewer lines that the town was operating at the time, if they fell outside of the new town boundaries, they were being transferred over to the PSA,” he said.
However, Vernon said the deeds to the individual properties that were sewer pump stations were never transferred.
“It’s something that should have been done a long time ago, but it was not done,” he said.
Vernon noted the situation is just a bookkeeping issue, and that business will continue as usual.
“The PSA has been operating those pump stations for several years,” he said, adding the only thing that will change is the name on the deeds.
