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ground water pollution from malfunctioning septic fields resulted in the closing of one business by the Health Department before efforts to secure a sewage disposal system got underway.
By refusing to guarantee the “front money" for design work, “you are shutting your eyes to a problem that's only going to get worse, he told the supervisors. "1 understand your being careful with money...but when we find ourselves against the wall, sometimes we have to gamble and this looks like a pretty good gamble.” The project has received approval from the Health Department and State Water Control Board and the citizens of Sperryville have voiced their support for the proposed system, Krebser continued. The county would be showing “bad faith" by refusing to put up five percent of the total $1,807,800 cost, he said.
If the engineers working on the project have faith that EPA and block grants will be forthcoming, "let them take the risk” and begin final design plans without a guarantee of county funds to pay their bill, interjected Robert Eastham from the
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