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cattle downstream. As to the watchdog and enforcement powers of the SWCB, the supervisor chairman emphasized that the Water Board had not pushed to end Sperryville's pollution problem. He claimed that plans for the community’s long-delayed sewer project had been sent back to the drawing board five times because design did not meet SWCB approval. "All plans fail...and yours will too." he said, in reference to the SWCB’s efforts to hold the tannery to design standards which will prevent pollution.
(According to Lisa Fumer from the SWCB’s Northern Regional office in Alexandria, the SWCB is prevented by state law from forcing the village of Sperryville to upgrade its sewage disposal system—currently individual septic fields—if the community doesn’t have funds for the project. “We can only make the town go through the proper steps in applying for a grant," she noted. Fumer said plans for the new septic system were approved by the SWCB in April, 1980, and are now on a grant list waiting for federal funds.)
According to Jackson, most industrial pollution emergencies are the result of failures in modified systems, operations that were redesigned to meet new air and water quality standards. Kuncewicz's proposed installation will have “built-in safety factors from the beginning...They won’t have to come in at the middle to try to fix something.’’ Plans and specifications for the tannery will be designed to meet the limits of what the Thornton River can handle, she said. As to enforcement of environmental standards, she noted that operators of the only other tannery in the state, a cow hide processing plant in Luray, decided to close down because the plant couldn't meet SWCB standards without spending significant amounts of money for renovation.
Change* Mint Be Okayed
In regard to possible expansion of the proposed tannery, Jackson emphasized that if Kuncewicz expand* or
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