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nine houses. “Now we need tanks for those bathrooms,” he said. *
Sperryville is operating under the gun of a state health department and SWCB order to clean up the community’s health hazard, ranked fifth in Virginia, created by raw sewage flowing into the Thornton River from malfunctioning septic fields.
Biddle noted that the SWCB has been trying for 10 years to resolve pollution problems created by sewage in ground water seeping through Sperryville’s alluvial, stratified soil into the river. "This system will keep the water out of the soil,” he said. According to Biddle, the WSA is only two weeks behind its work schedule set in July which called for the new feasibility study to being in August, public hearings on alternative designs in December, design specifications completed in February. 1981. bid advertisement in late March and the start of construction in early April. “We’re sticking to that schedule,” Biddle concluded.
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