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UNPLEASANT facts of life must be faced at Sperryville. The Health Department says it will be forced to take drastic steps if concrete action is not taken to solve the community’s long-standing problems with sewage disposal. Those drastic steps could include actual condemnation of businesses and residences. As Dr. R. S. LeGarde has warned on past occasions, Sperryville could be “closed up.”
Solutions have been proposed which appear to be within the realm of economic possibility. In other words, enough grant funds and special funds are being made available to enable Sperryville’s residents to acquire a central sewer system, to hook onto that system, and to acquire modern indoor plumbing where none now exists.
It won’t be easy. Solving difficult problems never is. But in view of the alternatives, there seems to be little choice. For once, reluctant state authorities appear to be determined to take whatever steps may be necessary.
We cannot see, however, the necessity for placing the Board of Supervisors in the middle of this dilemma. By
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