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out, however, that the SWCB money will continue to be contingent upon award of a block grant unless the county can come up with some other method of providing the almost half million dollars required for the local share.
Dennis reported that Delegate Raymond R. “Andy” Guest has said he will try to arrange a meeting as early as possible between the SWCB. Health Department, Housing and Community Development and Rappahannock representatives to determine exactly why the Sperryville blocks grant application failed towin the necessary points for funding.
"Guest said that the Community Development people told him Sperryville would have gotten funding if we’d properly demonstrated that a health hazard existed," Dennis said.
No Imminent Threat
Capelle countered that the block grant evaluation system provided for extra points for a health hazard but only for an emergency health hazard. "To qualify, you had to have a letter from the State Health Director saying, in essence, that you had people dying in town.” The criteria for this extra point option were "so prohibitive, so restrictive, it didn’t make sense for Sperryville, so I didn't even consider it (in preparing the funding application).’’ Capelle said. "It had to be an ’imminent threat' to public threat...You don’t have an imminent threat. You don't have people dying in Sperryville... We could not have gotten a letter from the State Health Director saying we had an imminent threat in Sperryville.” Capelle maintained, explaining that the type of emergency which would fall into the imminent threat category included hurricane destruction of a water system or a chemical spill in a water supply.
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