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contingent, however, on the receipt of the $4"8.193 block grant necessary to bring the system's monthly user fees down to the $10-$ 12 range considered affordable by Sperry ville's low and moderate income residents.
"Something got lost in the translation." Capelle replied, describing the block grants awards procedures as "a beaurocratic mess."
The planning district director said that both he and W S A secretary Bob Dennis had been informed that the block grant application failed on the basis of two points: the county’s low taxing effort in relation to its ability to raise revenue and the absence of a health hazard in Sperryville. He said he'd been told that the application failed to include recent certification of a health hazard by the State Health Department Director. Instead. Sperryville’s funding request included Health Department studies done in 1976 which detailed the extent of septic field malfunctions and well contamination with recent letters from the State Water Control Board and regional Health Director Bob Einarson affirming that the
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