CHATHAM, Va. â Chatham-area car enthusiasts might soon have a convenient new opportunity to get vaccinated.
At the May meeting of Chatham Town Council Monday night, the council and Scott Spillmann, director of the Pittsylvania-Danville Health District, initiated conversation around bringing a mobile COVID-19 vaccination unit to at least one of this summer s Classic Chevy Club cruise-ins on Chatham s Main Street.
The first cruise-in since 2019 was scheduled for April 24, but the event was rained out. The season s premier event is now slated for May 22, and will continue every fourth Saturday for the duration of the summer. We would have a vaccination van off of Main Street, Spillmann said. If someone wishes to get the vaccine during the cruise-in, they could.
CHATHAM, Va. â Six STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) students from Hargrave Military Academy received a tour of the Chatham Wastewater Treatment Plant this morning, where they learned about the plant s processes, equipment and operations. This is an activated sludge plant, said Malcolm Burgess, lead operator. What we re doing is cultivating bacteria, which will then eat the inorganics.
Wastewater travels through three tracks sequentially, before it drops into a clarifier. The cleanest water comes out the top and flows over. The heaviest stuff sinks to the bottom, where it s pumped out and returned back to be reaerated again and keep the bacteria moving, Burgess said. As the bacteria ages out and dies, we waste so much of it. Wasting means we get rid of anything dead that we donât need. It goes into our tanks, and we haul it to Danville later where it sits for 180 days by Virginia state law.
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CHATHAM, Va. â If you ve spent any time in Chatham since the ice storms of mid-February, chances are you ve seen massive piles of dead foliage cluttering the roads. At Chatham s monthly town council meeting Monday night, Inframark, the town s public works contractor, was unreservedly admonished by council members for what they called complacency of the highest order. The town looks terrible. It looks like a war zone, said Mayor Will Pace. Chatham prides itself on being the prettiest little town in Southside Virginia. It s not anymore.
Pace demanded Inframark finish debris removal by the end of this week. The fact that there are more branches and limbs on South Main Street than the entire town of Gretna altogether really bothers me. I m sick of seeing it, Pace said.
CHATHAM, Va. â A sinkhole appeared on Chatham s Main Street Monday morning at the corner of Hurt Street. Chatham Police and the town s contractor, Inframark, arrived on scene and blocked the area off.
 It is situated a couple of yards from a utility duct in the intersection of Main Street and Hurt Street, but is not blocking traffic. If you look down in there, you can see some liquid running down the bottom, said Timothy Hammell, account manager for Inframark. That might be the Town of Chatham s infrastructure that s broken, but as big as this is, it s been leaking for a long time.