HARRISONBURG, Va – Virginia U-S Senator Mark Warner was in the Friendly City Tuesday afternoon to deliver a one million-dollar check to the city for updates to its water infrastructure.

Speaking during a ceremony at City Hall, Warner says the federal funding, which was secured in the Fiscal Year 2023 Government Funding legislation, will replace and expand a defunct potable water pipe that will serve a grower-owned turkey cooperative in the Hinton area that employs over 500 people.

Warner added that other communities would die to have the quality of life that residents in Harrisonburg and the Valley have.

Harrisonburg Director of Public Utilities Mike Collins explained that in addition to helping the economy as well as the relationship between the city and the county, the city will save nearly 300-thousand dollars annually in taxpayer money by moving to a gravity-fed distribution system.