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pay this five per cent through a bond issue or a hook-on fee, he said. Pete Luke noted that Sperryville is number four on the state priority list of communities which should receive help in funding their sewage treatment system.

Carson Johnson had a suggestion. “Does anyone know if they’ve ever considered using the median strip of a four-laned highway for a septic field?” Johnson noted that four-lane Route 211 will come right by the Kilby property; maybe the soil in the median strip is as good as that on the Kilby tract.

George Long said that a septic field would have to be nearly 20 acres in size to treat the volume of sewage for Sperryville. Carson Johnson said, “If the median strip is a half acre wide, then it would have to run for 40 acres in length.”

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