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cerned, (the modited design; did not meet acceptable public health practices and standards," he said.

Eggborn reported engineers for the project had presented several alternative plans with price estimates in February or March of this year. "They recommended the least costly with S16 a month sewer bills— something in that order.”

But instead of individual septic tanks (Septic Tank Effluent Pumps or STEP) leading to a lagoon disposal system, the recommended design involved pumping from the septic tanks to a mound system, Eggborn reported.

As he explained it, soil on the 10 acres owned by the WSA is “not really suitable” for subsurface waste disposal. So the project engineers proposed mounding up sand with drain tiles in the mound, an approach used in the Midwest but never tried in Virginia on a large scale.

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