1000 Jackson Street,
PO Box
308
Roanoke
Rapids, NC 27870
(252) 537-9137
Fax(252) 537-3064
Pursuant to rule .0307(c)(2)(D) of the General Statutes of North Carolina, the Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District derives legal authority from the North Carolina State Board of Health's creative act on April 21, 1931and by virtue of an act of the General Assembly, ratified on March 4, 1927, providing for the creation, government and operation of Sanitary Districts. The Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District certifies ownership, leases or recorded easements are held in the name of the Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District for land, water supply sources, or physical facilities used in the operation of the system. Each of these instruments is available for review upon request.
The Water Treatment Plant site is a 17-acre, more or less, site held in fee by grant of deed from the J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc. Recorded in the Halifax County Registrar of Deeds October 12, 1977 Deed Book 985 @ Page 218. Each of the District's three tank sites are also deeds of record. The Gaston tank site is included in the lease-purchase agreement with the Town of Gaston. The District's raw water intake located in the upstream face of the Virginia Electric Power Company's Roanoke Rapids Dam is a perpetual use agreement mutually executed between the Virginia Electric Power Company and the Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District. The District's in-line raw water booster pump station for the primary source is sited on the District's fee simple title land. The District's Roanoke River raw water intake located on the south bank of the river and immediately west of the NC 48-bridge crossing is sited on land held in fee. The estimated 130 miles of distribution system lines are located primarily within existing Rights-of-Way of streets owned and maintained by the City of Roanoke Rapids or the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Easements have been recorded for distribution lines located in Rights-of-Way abandoned by the City of Roanoke Rapids.
