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moved up to 1984, he said.
The federal share of the cost of sewer construction is "definitely going to go down,” he continued, possibly dropping from the current 75 percent to the 50 percent bracket over a period of a few years. In addition, costs of collector lines may be eliminated entirely from eligibility for federal funding. “It’s hard for us to give you an up-front answer” until bills currently before the House and Senate are amended, passed and either signed or rejected by the President, Simmons stated, adding that he expects the funding picture to be cleared by late October or early November. “It’s going to be a battle and the question is whether the public works program is going to proceed.”
Dennis noted, however, that federal and state regulations require that the Thornton River waters be cleaned up.
"That law hasn’t been changed yet," Charlie Massie of the SWCB acknowledged. Sperryville ranks high on the list for funding due to the health hazard that the Thornton River pollution poses so the probability of its sewer project going ahead “is excellent compared to others,” he said.
Deimer noted that a study conducted in 1976 found 40 discharge points for raw sewage in Sperryville and 75 percent of the community’s septic fields malfunctioning. In addition, tests run on 26 wells in the village showed evidence of contamination from fecal choloform in 20 water sources.
After health department and SWCB representatives left, Rappahannock’s Water and Sewer Authority members authorized Buchart-Horn’s engineers to complete their report on the mound system, including cost and feasibility of alternative systems with a public hearing on the proposed project set tentatively for January, 1982.
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