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No Flood Protection
The WSA’s property, like all of Sperryville, is in flood plain, Eggborn pointed out. "No effort was made to protect the mound from flooding. By the engineer’s own admission, the system would be flooded out 10 to 20 percent of the time.”
It was primarily for this reason, he said, that he’d recommended rejection, although he noted that the health department had also questioned other engineering details for the proposed mound system.
"That’s the only alternative we rejected,” he emphasized. According to Eggborn, his report to the SWCB stated that the health department had no problem with other alternatives listed by the engineers “which appeared to be more typical type systems—more costly but easier to design and control.”
Pumping from individual septic tanks to a lagoon was the second least costly alternative on the list. "We did not disapprove that,” he stressed, reading from his letter to the SWCB dated April 16, 1981 which stated: “Other more reliable and
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