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Legislators want city and county to work out utility and growth dispute

In its 600-word letter to state legislators, the city of Hendersonville said it had agreed to compensate rural fire departments for lost tax revenue when it annexed property, obtained grants to pay for a quickly constructed water line extension to serve Academy Road homeowners whose wells were contaminated with pesticides, partnered with the county to create Garrison Industrial Park, joined the county, UNC Health Pardee, Wingate University and Blue Ridge Community College to build the Health Sciences Center and Pardee Cancer Center, extended sewer at the county’s request to Halfway Tree Mobile Home Park to eliminate a failing septic system and partnered with the county to extend sewer to Atkinson Elementary School.

By Bill Moss, Published: April 11, 2024

The Hendersonville City Council last week fired a preemptive strike as the decades long city-county water war erupted again, spelling out to the county’s legislative delegation the ways the city had tried to “resolve the long-standing dispute over governance of the utility system.”