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block grant is the only way that a sewer system is going to be realized." remarked supervisor Charles Estes as the Rappahannock board agreed Monday to support an application for community development block grant funds to build Sperryville's long delayed sewer project.
Bob Dennis, secretarytreasurer of the county’s Water and Sewer Authority, reported that Sperryville is slated to get SI.4 million in Environmental Protection Agency funds channeled through the State Water Control Board in fiscal year 1983.
Total cost for the STEP (septic tank effluent pumping) system, collection lines and package treatment plant proposed for the village is SI.8 million. Dennis said.
That leaves $400,000 for the local share, money which if borrowed from Farmers Home Administration at the current 12 percent interest
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