{"id":109306,"date":"2021-01-11T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=109306"},"modified":"2021-01-11T11:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T16:00:49","slug":"marine-corps-threatens-to-shut-off-citys-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=109306","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps threatens to shut off city’s water supply"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There’s a town of about 500 people located entirely within Marine Corps Base Quantico. It seems the mayor there found out that the most recent contract for water, which the Marines provide to the city, was back in the 1930s. They decided that they were only going to pay the Corps according to that contract and friction has ensued.<\/p>\n

From insidenova.com<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Quantico, the only town in the country located within a military base, is about to have its water shut off by the U.S. Marine Corps, says Mayor Kevin Brown.<\/p>\n

A long-running dispute between the town and the surrounding Marine Corps Base Quantico over water and sewer service has reached crisis level, Brown said, with the base threatening to shut off water if the two sides don\u2019t reach an agreement on a new contract by Feb. 1.<\/p>\n

Brown said town officials have been trying for eight years, since he was elected, to negotiate a \u201cmore equitable\u201d water and sewer agreement with the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n

Due to the current arrangement, in which the base charges the town regular customer rates, Quantico officials can\u2019t address the $2 million to $4 million in repairs needed for its antiquated water distribution system, Brown said.<\/p>\n

He said the last water service contract he could find between the town and base dates back 90 years, when the base first began providing water. Back then, the water rate was set at $0.10 per kilo gallon. Recently, the base has been charging the town $4.35 per kilo gallon, Brown said.<\/p>\n

But for the past two years, the town has been readjusting the water bills and paying the base the 1930 rate.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter escalating this matter to the highest levels of U.S. Marine Corps leadership, local and state officials and its representatives in the United States Congress, the Town of Quantico was forced to hold the U.S. Marine Corps to the existing original water agreement signed in July 1930,\u201d Brown said in a news release late last week.<\/p>\n

Base officials told InsideNoVa that the 1930 agreement was a revokable license with the Town of Quantico to sell them surplus water. In 1971, the base and town expanded the relationship and entered into a contract for sewage services.<\/p>\n

In the following decades, the license and the sewage contract were modified by the actions and agreements of the parties to reflect the cost of base’s production for the services, the base said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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