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By DAPHNE lfcCULLOUGH
“THE chips are down,” said Rappahannock County health officer Dr. R. S. LeGarde, speaking of Sperryville’s sewage disposal problem. According to Supervisor Chairman Pete Luke, the Rappahannock Supervisors will take action at their meeting Thursday that will either begin a Sperryville sewer project or halt the attempts to solve the town’s pollution problem.
As a first step towards implementing either of the two alternative sewage disposal systems detailed in a report received from Mackie Engineering, the Board of Supervisors would have to concur with the ruling of the Water and Sewer Authority requiring mandatory hook-ups to any sewage system in Sperryville.
At a meeting two weeks ago, the Authority ruled “under the authority granted them by the code of Virginia’’ to require that all commercial establishments and residences connect with the Sperryville sewer line, subject to the concurrence of the Board of Supervisors.
This action was taken following findings by the Health Department that all 120 houses in Sperryville have either outhouses or failing septic systems. The area’s rocky, alluvial soil will perk, but the effluent runs horizontally, contaminating the water table and the Thornton River. In addition, a sewage system would have to be used by all the Sperryville homes in order for it to be affordable, said an Authority spokesman.
THE Board would also have to authorize the transfer of funds from the $188,000 grant received from HUD for the project. If
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