CHESAPEAKE In early October, Robyn Pierce got a call from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with what should have been good news. " 'Your lead levels came back normal,' " she recalled. Pierce was perplexed.

CHESAPEAKE The City Council on Tuesday agreed to spend up to $6 million committed by Dominion Virginia Power to extend public water to residents who live near Battlefield Golf Club.

CHESAPEAKE On Tuesday, the City Council will vote whether to make an emergency appropriation of $6 million to extend public water to people who live near the Battlefield Golf Club at Centerville.

CHESAPEAKE Karen Fox is no stranger to fly ash, or to flooding. She and her family live on Murray Drive in a roughly 40-home community on a single street just south of Battlefield Golf Club at Centerville. Their well is in the backyard.

Dominion Virginia Power could have balked at the idea that it should pay for some of the consequences of Chesapeake's boneheaded decision in 2001 to build a golf course with fly ash. Fortunately, the company has declared that it would pay the costs of extending city water to homes near the golf course, placing a down payment of several million dollars on a solution to the mess.

CHESAPEAKE A Dominion Virginia Power executive told residents living near a golf course made of fly ash that it would pay the $4 million to $6 million that city officials preliminarily have estimated it will cost to extend city water to affected residents.

CHESAPEAKE Two days after the wheels were set in motion to bring public water to people who live near a golf course constructed of fly ash, city officials identified several what it termed potential “responsible parties” that should help pay for it.

GLEN ALLEN The state Department of Environmental Quality took another step Wednesday toward the possible toughening of regulations governing coal-ash projects like Battlefield Golf Club at Centerville.

CHESAPEAKE Mayor Alan Krasnoff asked the city manager on Tuesday night to take steps toward extending public water to neighborhoods that surround a golf course sculpted from 1.5 million tons of fly ash.