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rainier 01 tne KappanannocK Water and Sewer Authority held that just because nothing bubbled up in the drainfield when a toilet was flushed didn’t mean that the drainfield was working properly. Palmer maintained that Sperryville’s flood plain soil couldn’t hold fluid long enough to purify it. Instead, the pollutants enter the town’s well water. Palmer said that recent well digging activity in Sperryville had shown that the ground was sand and gravel to a depth of 42 feet and this enabled the waste water to flow horizonally and enter the water table.
LESTER DEAL, whose Sperryville sandwich shop had been closed by Health Department officials, supported the proposed system.” “I feel like if we have the opportunity to go along with this and get the money, we should,” he said.
Mrs. Helen Kilby wasn’t so sure. She asked if performance and maintenance bonds would be required of the contractors working on the system. Luke assured her that bonding was a government requirement for receiving federal grants and that all contractors working on the project would have to be licensed. Mrs. Kilby explained that her questions were due to a SWCB ruling, four years after Sperryville had been asked to borrow $169,000 to fund a lagoon
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