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in Culpeper added that the Bear Island facility employs a tiered design to permit different levels of waste treatment based on stream flow. A mound system at the proposed location in Sperryville would allow for no treatment of wastes some of the time, he said.

Becky Tolliver, also with the regional HD office in Culpeper, questioned whether the mound itself wouldn’t be physically destroyed by flooding. After the waters subsided, she asked, would a supersaturated mound still be able to provide required treatment levels?

The site for the mound was chosen because it was already owned by the WSA which purchased the land with the original intent of building a lagoon-type treatment facility already approved by the health department and SWCB, Deimer noted. The mound alternative was proposed only after estimates on monthly user fees for the lagoon system exceeded what the WSA felt Sperryville residents could pay. "We were confined in our design alternatives by financial

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