Answers From Council Member Gajewski #4 and #2: Water Delivery and The Rockville Resident Of The Future

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As Rockville Central readers know, one attendee at Council Member Piotr Gajewski’s “Town Hall” meeting earlier this month posed a series of questions in an email afterward. They are listed at the end of our recap of the meeting.

Council Member Gajewski has been working on answers to those questions, asking City staff to run down details. He’s already answered Question #3, about bulk trash pickups. Here are the next two answers, to question #2 and question #4. (Piotr is sending the asnwers along as he gets them):

Question #4, with respect to water delivery to Twinbrook Commons and Rockville Pike redevelopments, and the City in general:

WSSC will provide water and sewer at Twinbrook Commons; the Rockville Pike area is in the City’s service area.

The Rockville water system is a City-wide system (with the exception of the few areas that are serviced by WSSC). The ready to serve charge already in place and the proposed replacement program are set up so that all users bear an equitable share of the cost for the entire system. The replacement program, if enacted, will be staged so that oldest, least reliable pipes (the vast majority of which are east of route 355), will be replaced first.

Question #2, with respect to the future “projected profile of a Rockville resident:”

In the foreseeable future we can expect Rockville population to remain much as it is today. Contrary to trends in some other parts of Maryland, Rockville is expected to continue a slow (approximately 2% per year) increase in population. The present ethnic diversity is expected to continue and perhaps increase slightly. The cohort of ages 20-44 is expected to show a percentage decrease and the cohort of ages 45-64 may also show a slight percentage decrease. A slight increase is expected for the 0-19 cohort and the population age 65+ is expected to continue to increase (much as it is nationwide).

Thanks, Piotr!

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