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“Based on what has happened in the past, I wouldn't take my money and guarantee it and I wouldn't take the taxpayers’ money and guarantee it either,” H. B. Wood responded, apparently in reference to grant awards which have been withdrawn previously for the project.
(Sperryville was awarded a $198,000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Envelopment and a $690j000 EPA grant in 1976. A lagoon-type treatment facility was accepted by the community and okayed by the State Water Control Board and the Health Department but plans w'ere sent back to the drawing board in the summer of 1980 after cost estimates climbed to $2.3 million, a 270 percent increase over the $850,000 projected for the same design three years earlier. The $2.3 million price tag would have translated into monthly user fees of $50 to $60, way over the maximum that Sperryville's residents could afford. (Engineers came up with a scaled-down plan that relied on specially designed septic tanki for the first stage of treatment and smaller pipes to carry partially treated sewage to the lagoon for final treatment but this was rejected by health department engineers due to Sperryville’s flood plain location.
(While former WSA chairman Maurice Biddle was attempting to arrange a conference with SWCB and
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