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treatment facility," wrote John Einarson, health director of the planning district, in a letter accompanying the block grant proposal. “We must advise that without a properly functioning sewage disposal facility the health of the public of the community of Sperryville continues to be in jeopardy.”
The proposed sewage treatment facility — an innovative septic tank effluent pump (STEP) collection and preliminary treatment system with small diameter force mains which transported wastes to a package treatment plant — carries a price tag of Sl.bV2.693. Slightly over 28 percent of that amount is what the Waste and Sewer Authority is seeking from the block grant program. The remaining $1,214,500 "is already reserved" for construction of Sperryville's facility by the State Water Control Board. Capelle assured the Rappahannock Supervisors, and will come from federal funds channeled to the state. The SWCB money is at least partially contingent, however, on award of the community development grant, according to comments from SWCB personnel at earlier hearings.
Without the grant, monthly user fees will be $35. beyond the range of Sperryville's low and moderate income population. The affordability of the system has consistently presented a stumbling block which tripped up earlier efforts to build the sewer system. The project passed the design phase in 1977 but even with construction funds allocated by the Envrionmental Protection Agency and money from the Farmers Home Administration, updated cost estimates for the originally proposed gravity collection and lagoon system proved to be too expensive ($55 per month per unit) for users to support.
It was back to the drawing board for redesign which eventually resulted in the proposal for the STEP and package treatment plant facility. Now with both the community development grant and the $1.2 million from EPA set aside for Sperryville by the State Water Control Board, user fees will be approximately $12 per month.
High Priority
In a second letter with the block grant proposal. Stu Wilson, regional construction grants coordinator for the State Water Control Board, noted that present conditions in Sperryville violate both the Federal Clean Water Act and the State Water Control Board Law. “The State placed the community on the State priority list for construction projects as the number 5 priority project in
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