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possibilities of permitting “pump and haul” sewage handling as a temporary measure so that the new bathrooms could be used. If local people are willing to install their own septic holding tanks and bear the expense of pumping and hauling, the WSA members wanted to know, could it be done?
Only local sanitarian Jack Lockhart was there Monday night to give an answer. “I think economics would knock it out,” he maintained. According to Lockhart, it costs between $60 and $70 to have an 800 gallon septic tank pumped out. For a family of four creating approximately 100 gallons per day per person of waste water, that would mean pumping every other day. “So it would cost in the neighborhood of $30 per day for pump and haul,” Lockhart reported.
“That would stop me right there!” Johnson remarked.
Using standard pre-cast concrete septic tanks that come in two parts could also create problems with ground water seeping into the tank when water levels in the floodplain are high, according to the sanitarian.
Woodward added that he’d checked with the TeePee restaurant w?st of SperryvUie.,
about six .wee’X's ago,J«$p learned that it cost between $90 and $100 each time they pumped and hauled.
Returning to the issue of funding, Woodward noted that the federal government spends vast sums to subsidize sewage treatment systems in metropolitan areas and questioned why the same level of funding wasn’t available to make Sperryville’s sewage treatment system affordable to the people of the community.
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Funding Lost
Johnson answered that if the project had been ready to go, it could have proceeded with 90 percent federal funding before grants from Housing and Urban Development and Envrionmental Protection Agency were cancelled or deferred and before rates on Farmers Home Administration loans skyrocketed. "There’s no way we’re going to see that (level of funding) again,” he noted, adding that cuts in federal money for sewer construction could leave Sperryville with SO percent funding.
For the package sewage treatment plant, the WSA is talking about monthly user fees of $18 to $20, Woodward recalled. “There’s no way people living on minimum social security payments can afford that!” He showed the WSA members a three months sewer bill from the Hampton-Roads metropolitan area that totalled just $6.40. “There should be the same sufficient federal funding for the Sperryville project," he maintained.
Changing subjects, Woodward asked the WSA for assistance in getting a
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