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Horvath—all recognized experts in their fields—were invited by RLEP to give presentations and answer questions on solid waste management and sewage disposal.
“What is your problem out here (with sewage disposal)?” asked Leo Horvath.
He added that he’d obtained sketchy information from the State Water Control Board in preparation for the RLEP meeting and had been told of difficulties in Sperryville with failing septic systems and untreated wastes being discharged into the Thornton River.
If failing septic fields are the major problem, Horvath continued, the community should consider a composting device that uses a dry system for the treatment of human wastes or land treatment with lagoons and some chlorination followed by spray irrigation as feasible alternatives.
To answer Horvarth, Supervisor Chairman Pete Luke gave the panel a brief history of Sperryville’s proposed treatment plant, from the 1966 study on a countywide sewer system through the town’s current designation as number one on the state’s priority list of health hazards. As a result of this high priority, said Luke, Sperryville has received federal and state funding for most of the costs of the “no growth”, lagoon treatment plant.
He noted that a land dispersal system using spray irrigation had been considered and then decided
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