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By daphne McCullough
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
The Rappahannock School Board has taken no action on upgrading the county elementary school’s sewage treatment lagoon so that effluent will meet new State Water Control Board standards. However, at last Tuesday’s meeting, Superintendent Dr. William Bloomer, reported that the SWCB had issued a discharge permit despite the School Board’s delay in signing an agreement to improve the facility.
According to mformation presented at previous meetings, the lagoon has been shut down since last winter when severe cold interferred with normal operations. Following the spring thaw and "turn over” in the lagoon, effluent readings on suspended solids and biological oxygen demand (BOD) jumped over the limits allowed by SWCB regulations.
Subsequently, new lower levels of 30 miligrams per liter for suspended solids and BOD were adopted by the SWCB and the school’s discharge permit expired. School officials have noted that the effluent produced by the system, even when it was operating properly, could not meet the new standards.
SWCB officials informed the School Board two months
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