OCCOQUAN, Va. -- A terrace, amphitheatre, even ice skating could be coming to a new park in Occoquan.
The Town Council Wednesday approved a memorandum of understanding with with Fairfax Water and Prince William County that clears the way for a new one-acre park to be built where a water treatment facility once stood at the end of Mill Street in Occoquan.
Finer details with the plan have yet to be worked out, but overall Fairfax Water agrees to demolish water tanks that were once apart of the River Station Water Treatment Plant and then lease the property for 30 years to whoever agrees to own be a tenant of the land, said Occoquan Mayor Earine Porta.
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