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mine if water quality standards are being met, Frye said. What happens to the Thornton River in Sperryville “should be up to the local people and they’re not interested! No one’s here!” he noted.
Still Too Expensive
The state may force the village to construct a sewage treatment plant, Frye continued, “but I still can’t see how a treatment plant will work for any amount of time...without monthly bills increasing year after year. Is the state going to require something that the people can’t afford?”
Tests run by the health department six years ago on 26 wells in the community found 20 contaminated by sewage, WSA member Donald Gore noted. “And just this past summer, a child in Sperryville got sick from a contaminated well,” he reported.
“You can find the same situation in New York, in Chicago, in Richmond...If we had an epidemic, it would be a different matter but do we have an epidemic?” Frye asked.
Contamination of 20 out of 26 wells gives the village “a potential epidemic,” Johnson answered.
Frye maintained that the j, same fecal choloform con- „ tamination would show up : throughout the county if - wells were tested.
Addressing Frye’s contention that any sewage treatment plant will prove to be too expensive for the town, Dennis noted that the engineers have proposed a small, limited capacity package plant as a means of keeping costs down. "Now we can only talk in generalities and theory until we get their final report,” he concluded.
Sperryville landowner Edward Woodward asked earlier in the meeting if the WSA members could ' give him any assurance that odors from the system wouldn’t be detectable at his house approximately 200 yards away from the authority’s proposed site.
"Modern sewage treatment systems can operate odor free,” Dennis replied but noted that he couldn't give Woodward a 100 percent answer. As with specifics on cost, questions on odor will have to wait for a final answer until the WSA gets into details of the plant it proposes to buy, he added. “We’re a long way from making any decision. Once the engineers have completed their restudy, we’ll hold a public hearing (in Sperryville). That will be the time to get into these questions in depth.”
Pump and Haul
As part of the earlier, rejected treatment plant project, bathrooms were installed with grant funds in several Sperryville homes that lacked indoor plumbing. The WSA members had requested health department officials to attend Monday’s meeting to discuss the
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