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sysicm wui cither become overloaded or the ski area wil| need expanded sanitary facilities, Biddle contended.
According to Biddle, he’d been told 1>y State Water Control Board personnel that the ski area "damn well better not have a discharge” into the Rush River. In order to avoid a discharge, it would appear that facilities would require expansion, he continued. However, Biddle noted, there have been no soil studies done on the property so no one knows if an expanded septic system is “even possible.”
Biddle, Chairman of the county’s Water and Sewer Authority, recalled that the septic system under construction for Sperryville has a 55.000 gallon capacity to serve 750 people. If 55,000 gallon capacity is required for 750 people, then the ski area system would need 150.000 capacity to handle its forecasted customer load, he noted.
Biddle proposed that the BZA postpone its decision on Moore’s application to allow the Health Department and State Water Control Board time to conduct engineering and soil analysis studies so Rappahannock people will know that the Rush River won’t be polluted.
Health Department representatives were not present to answer questions raised by Biddle. Neither Moore nor his attornies offered any rebutal or explanations.
Traffic Problem Virginia Lindstrom, stating that she was not testifying as a representative of the Washington Town Council, asked how ski area traffic was going to be managed without creating “a a terrible problem in our town.” She added that she was born and raised in Rappahannock and so was not an “outsider”, and asked if there would be enough revenue from the ski area operation to pay for the services that the town and county would have to provide. “I’m not against the ski lodge as a ski lodge,” she r~
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