Editing Chesapeake, Virginia (section)

===Utilities===
Water and sewer services are provided by the city's Department of Utilities. Chesapeake receives its electricity from [[Dominion Virginia Power]] which has local sources including the Chesapeake Energy Center (a coal-fired and gas power plant), coal-fired plants in the city and [[Southampton County, Virginia|Southampton County]], and the Surry Nuclear Power Plant. Norfolk headquartered [[AGL Resources#Virginia Natural Gas|Virginia Natural Gas]], a subsidiary of [[AGL Resources]], distributes [[natural gas]] to the city from storage plants in [[James City County]] and in the city.

The Virginia tidewater area has grown faster than the local freshwater supply. Chesapeake receives the majority of its water from the Northwest River in the southeastern part of the city. To deal with intermittent high salt content, Chesapeake implemented an advanced [[reverse osmosis]] system at its Northwest River water treatment plant in the late 1990s. The river water has always been salty, and the fresh groundwater is no longer available in most areas. Currently, additional freshwater for the [[South Hampton Roads]] area is pumped from [[Lake Gaston]], about {{convert|80|mi|km}} west, which straddles the Virginia-North Carolina border along with the [[Blackwater River (Virginia)|Blackwater]] and [[Nottoway River|Nottaway]] rivers. The pipeline is {{convert|76|mi|km}} long and {{convert|60|in|mm}} in diameter. Much of its follows the former [[right-of-way (railroad)|right-of-way]] of an abandoned portion of the [[Virginian Railway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virginiaplaces.org/watersheds/lakegaston.html|title=Lake Gaston and Virginia Beach's Drinking Water|work=virginiaplaces.org|access-date=21 May 2016}}</ref> It is capable of pumping {{convert|60|e6USgal|m3}} of water per day. The cities of Chesapeake and Virginia Beach are partners in the project.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lake Gaston Water Supply Pipeline|url=https://www.vbgov.com/government/departments/public-utilities/about-pu/lake-gaston/Pages/default.aspx|website=www.vbgov.com|publisher=City of Virginia Beach|access-date=12 June 2016}}</ref>

The city provides wastewater services for residents and transports wastewater to the regional Hampton Roads Sanitation District treatment plants.<ref name="HRSD">{{cite web|title=Hampton Roads Sanitation District|url=http://www.hrsd.state.va.us/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224132939/http://www.hrsd.state.va.us/|archive-date=2012-12-24|access-date=2008-03-08|publisher=Hampton Roads Sanitation District}}</ref>