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AS QUESTIONS continued, Dr. LeGarde expressed a recurring query to Simmons: “Can the money be spent on other means (of solution)?”—other than a collector system and plant. Simmons again said it could.

Lester Deal thought the engineering questions “best left up to you people,” but that up to now “you’ve been talking about a lot of money, and it scares people.”

Added Deal: “I’m willing to hook onto any suitable system that the people can afford.”

Dr. LeGarde, feeling encouraged, suggested that the supervisors and the county water and sewer authority take steps to upgrade the engineering study of Sperryville and then “tell us what it will cost and how we can finance it.”

IN ANSWER to a question from Carson Johnson about Highway Department plans in Sperryville, Dr. LeGarde grinned: “I even went to the State Highway people hoping they would buy Sperryville. They said that was one of the possibilities, but that they also have two plans now to go around Sperryville.”

Dr. LeGarde also characterized the previous $34, 000 grant as “just a comeon—it wouldn’t build anything. But now the WCB is saying if we come up

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