Casanova began as Three Mile Station on the Warrenton Branch Railroad, and the historic village is compact: a stone mill from 1879 that became a house in 1947, and ten frame houses built between about 1880 and 1910. When the state wrote the village up for the National Register, two of the outbuildings it listed were pump houses. That’s Casanova in a sentence. The water has always come out of the ground on your own lot.
It still does. FCWSA has no service district, well, tank or plant at Casanova, and none of the Authority’s sixteen water systems reaches it. There’s no main on Casanova Road, and the village isn’t one of the service districts where the County plans public water. Whatever the age of the house, from a 1900s I-house in the village to a newer house on the roads around it, the water depends on a well, a pump, a pressure switch and a tank.
Where that tank lives is the local twist. The County’s village plan says some of the high ground around Casanova is shallow to bedrock, which keeps basements out of some houses. So the tank and switch might be in a crawlspace, a utility closet or out in a pump house rather than down the basement stairs. An unheated pump house is often the first place a pipe or a switch freezes in a hard cold snap, so a little heat or insulation out there earns its keep.
The numbers on this page need a footnote. Casanova’s ZIP is post office boxes and the Census draws no place around the village, so the table shows ZIP 20119, the Catlett area Casanova sits inside. Storms are local, though. In August 2021 wind took down a stand of trees where Casanova Road meets Meetze Road, and in July 2025 a flash flood put a foot of water across Balls Mill Road. When the lines come down out here, the pump goes quiet with them.