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BY PEKAY PETTUS
SPERRYVILLE businesses have been granted new ' health permits on a six - month “provisional” basis, according to Rappahannock Supervisor Pete Luke. Ther permits will be renewed every six months as long as District Health Officer Dr. R. S. LeGarde finds “continuing evidence or progress toward expediting an approved sewer system for the Sperryville problem.” LeGarde had notified the businesses in December that the Health Department would not renew permits in January since the businesses were discharging sewage directly into the South Fork of the Thornton River.
Formal affirmation of the “reprieve” didn’t come until after a public hearing on regional sewer problems held in Warrenton Wednesday, January 9. Planning District Commission on sewer questions— Pete Luke, the supervisor in the district that includes Sperry ville, and a member for temporary permits while citizens studied alternatives for sewage treatment.
Since they’d not heard from the State Health Department on the temporary permits, the group was considering legal action, Luke said.
“This is a threatening step and we don’t want to take it, but livelihood in a small town is involved. People can’t be deprived of their source of income without compensation.”
BUT NOW that the “provisional permit” * are in effect, the group has no plans jto pursue legal action, Luke said.
Engineers for the Rappahannock-Bapidan Planning District Commission had proposed three alternatives for Sperryville’s sewer problem, but the only cme they regard as economically feasible is a sewage “stabilization pond” or lagoon, a method of waste treatment not considered satisfactory by the State Water Control Board,
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