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take advantage of the opportunity could result in the closing of the town’s businesses and residences, Johnson warned.
About-Face
“The Water and Sewer Authority has its own fund raising authority," noted E. P. Luke, former Piedmont representative who served as chairman of the supervisors until his resignation last year. If the board guarantees payment for design work with county funds, he said, "it will be a complete about-face from the position it’s taken for the last six or seven years—that it was a Sperryville problem and the board washed its hands of it."
“I don't agree that it’s a Sperryville problem entirely,” countered supervisor chairman Dick Latham, noting that the polluted Thornton River runs across the entire county.
“You can look at it as a county problem and then you can look at Chester Gap, Flint Hill and Washington as county problems too," Luke warned, maintaining that the three communities also have sewage disposal difficulties. “You set a precedent,” he said. Luke added that he believes Sperryville needs a sewer system but that the project should be financed without county assistance.
Werner Krebser, doctor at the Rappahannock Clinic and a member of the county’s planning commission, noted that Sperryville has posed a health problem for many years. He pointed out that
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