Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15
Broyhi|I Seeks
Water Pact in
Fairfax County
Tells Falls Church
To Give 1t OF Cost
Or Foce Force
BY PAUL HOPE
star stan Writer

representative DlOyllAi, NC-
publican of Virginia, today told
Falls Church to supply the Fair
fax County Water Authority
with water at cost or he will
sponsor legislation making it
mandatory.
Mr.. Broyhill has prepared a.
bill which would force the city
to provide water to the county
authority and would prohibit
any jurisdiction served by the
Districts Dalecarlia Reservoir
from making a profit on its
water system. The profit ban
also is aimed at Falls Church,
which is supplied from Dale
carlia.
The bill is designed to break
the stalemate which Fairfax
County and Falls Church off,
Gals have reached in water
supply negotiations. 1t also is
intended to answer a constant
Fairfax County criticism that
Falls Church is making a profit
on its water operation at the
expense of Fairfax County
customers.
The recently organized |
county water authority is
planning an integrated, county
wide water system. 1t has asked |
Falls Church to allow it to tap
the city's trunk line which will
run from the Districts Dale
carlia Reservoir. but city Of
ficials and county representa-
tiveS have been unable to
reach an agreement.
Mayor Notified
In a letter to Falls Church |
Mayor Thomas A. O'Halloran
made public today, Mr.. Broyhill |
said he will introduce the bill |
unless a prompt voluntary |
agreement is reached between
the two Jurisdictions.
Mr.. Broyhill noted that Falls
Church has been getting Dale
carlia Reservoir water at cost
from Arlington lines for several
years. He said Falls Church |
should show Fairfax County
the same consideration when
the city's own Dalecarlia line
is completed.
The county water authority
recently announced plans for a
SIS million trunk line which
would run from the Dalecarlia
Reservoir to Chantilly Airport.
James j. Corbalis, engineer
director of the authority, said
$500, 900 would be saved if the
authority could tap the Falls
Church line instead of build
ing its own river crossing to
Dalecarlia.
Capacity Until 1870
Mr.. Corbalis said the Falls
Church line will have sufficient
capacity to serve the city and
the authority systems until
1870.
Mr.. Broyhill said another
major purpose" of his bill is to
prohibit any municipality from
selling Federal water at a
profit"
The Falls Church system
serves about 10000 people of
which about 10000 are in sur
rounding Fairfax County ter
ritory. Customers in the county
area are charged $8.04 more a
year than city customers.
II cannot permit the use of
Federal water to be used as a
means of alleviating Falls
Church tax problem at the ex-
pense of Fairfax County water
consumers" Mr.. Broyhill said
in his letter to Mayor O'Hal-
loran. He said Fairfax County
customers on the city system
''have no legal recourse what
soever if they consider the
water rates unfair" since they
are not residents of the city
and ARE unable to use normal
political channels to express
their views"
Falls Church has made
profit on it's water system for
about eight years, city officials
have said. This year, about
100000 in water profits was
put into the city's general fund
for other city operations.