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struct a “sewage stabiliation pond” near the confluence of the North Fork and Thornton Rivers.
Rappahannock representatives to the planning commission, Pete Luke and F. E. Baumgardner, offered a counter proposal, citing that a sewage stabilization pond is not regarded as a satisfactory method of secondary waste treatment by the State Water Control Board, which must approve the plans.
They also emphasized that the cost would be out of all proportion to Sperryville’s needs. Luke and Baumgardner suggested a plan proposed by General Noce, where the community of Sperryville would buy or lease high land for location of several large septic
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BEFORE offering Noce’s the engineers were not aware of Sperryville’s “unique situation and envir- * onment” when they drafted report.
He cited a 1968 study by Martin and Clifford Associates which proposed a $300,000 sewage treatment plant. Though Federal grants would have assumed much of the cost, Sperryville would have been responsible for $165,000. Martin and Clifford had suggested that Sperryville residents could obtain a loan to cover this.
Luke said that such an
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