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By DAPHNF. HUTCHINSON,
Rappalumnorfc Staff Writer
Only two Sperryville property owners showed up at Monday’s meeting of the Rappahannock Water and Sewer Authority, giving credance to the contentions that people in the community aren't at all interested in whether or not the long delayed sewage treatment system is constructed.
“It appears that the people of Sperryville aren’t going to be able to afford any type of (sewage treatment) plant,” said Rudy Frye. “It’s important to clean up the river but not at the expense of an unnecessary tax burden on the local people...(bui!ding the sewage treatment plant) will not accomplish anything but to satisfy the state,” he claimed.
“It goes beyond cleaning up the river,” countered WSA chairman Carson Johnson, pointing to health hazards posed by ground water contamination from the community’s malfunctioning septic fields.
“People don’t seem to be that interested in the socalled septic system because they know what it’s going to cost...It’s going to be a boondoggle, just a mess!” Frye insisted.
“They may not be able to afford not to- id© it,” responded Johnson.
The people of Sperryville have been living with the health hazards caused by sewage disposal in flood plains soils for 100 years, Frye argued.
"But it’s getting worse. Our children—all of us—are drinking contaminated water and it’s not going to get any better until we do something about it,” the WSA chairman maintained.
Bob Dennis, secretarytreasurer of the authority, explained that it’s the WSA’s reponsibility to work with residents of the community, health department officials,
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