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the same regardless of the kind of treatment system that’s built, Long and Biddle said. That $188,000 represents 20% of the entire cost of the collection system.

WOOD predicted the Water and Sanitation Authority would have to condemn land on which to build the treatment plant. That bothered him. Since the county Supervisors are applying for this grant, they could be the object of a suit brought by anyone who fought the condemnation of their land.

But engineer George Long assured him the collection system would inspire no suits, and the HUD funds would only be used for that part of the project.

“I’m just worried that the people of Sperryville don’t know what they’re getting into,” Wood said. “Do they want this?” he asked.

Luke ran through a quick history of the Sperryville sewer project going back to county wide sewer “studies” nearly ten years ago. Just two years ago the businesses in the village had been threatened with the loss of their

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