WHAT: Henrico County officials will break ground on two major infrastructure projects: a widening of Richmond-Henrico Turnpike and construction of the Eastern Henrico Transmission Line.

WHO: Board of Supervisors Chair and Fairfield District Supervisor Roscoe D. Cooper III, Varina District Supervisor Tyrone E. Nelson and other county officials

WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 28, 10 a.m.



WHERE: 810 E. Laburnum Ave.

                  Henrico, VA 23222


This address takes you to Gate 4 for the Richmond Raceway. Please use Gate 4a and pass the event staging area to park in the nearby fields. The event will be livestreamed for media, unable to attend.


BACKGROUND: The Eastern Henrico Transmission Line will install about 13 miles of 42-inch water main, allowing areas of central and eastern Henrico to be served by the county’s Water Treatment Facility, if needed. Those areas are served primarily by Richmond’s Water Treatment Plant. Henrico officials fast-tracked the project after a shutdown of Richmond’s plant in January 2025 left thousands of county customers without water service for several days. Henrico’s departments of Public Works and Public Utilities coordinated efforts to allow the first section of the transmission line to be installed as part of a project to widen and improve Richmond-Henrico Turnpike between East Laburnum Avenue and Hummingbird Road.