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After a second candidate for elementary assistant principal turned down the job last week, tfce Rappahannock School Board members needed to find something to smile about. They got it at Tuesday’s School Board meeting in an opinion from Commonwealth Attorney George Davis.
According to Davis’ interpretation of the Virginia Code, the State Water Control Board (SWCB) cannot force the county School Board to undertake expensive renovations on the elementary school’s sewage treatment plant without also supplying funds for the job.
Superintendent William Bloomer presented the School Board members with copies of correspondence between Davis and Bloomer and Davis and the SWCB Assistant Executive.
In a letter dated November 1, Bloomer asked George Davis for his opinion on the SWCB’s legal authority and liability of the School Board if effluent from the Rappahannock Elementary School exceeds permit limits. Bloomer also asked which take precedence — state or federal discharge guidelines — and requested Davis’ recommendation on action for the School Board to follow.
Bloomer gave the School Board members a copy last . night of George Davis’ letter dated November 7 to R. V. Davis, Assistant executive of the SWCB.
In the letter, excerpting extensively from the Virginia Code to back up his argument, Davis maintained that the SWCB has no power to require the School Board to upgrade the sewage treatment plant as long as the lagoon is meeting its original certification requirements. The lagoon’s failure to meet new effluent standards adopted by the SWCB in June is not grounds for the SWCB to require that the facility be updated,, according to Rappahannock’s Commonwealth miorney. He maintained that the SWCB only had this authority when existing sewage systems cease to perform in accordance with their approved certificate requirements.
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