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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Monday’s meeting of the Rappahannock Water and Sewer Authority may have been its shortest session on record but it was long on good news.
WSA members Carson Johnson, Bob Dennis and Donald Gore received a copy of a letter written by the State Water Control Board chairman, expressing unqualified support for Sperryville’s proposed sewer system. The letter signed by Millard B. Rice, Jr. was addressed to the Department of Housing and Community Development, administrating agency for the block grant program on which funding for the sewer project depends.
Pit privies and malfunctioning septic fields in the village discharge raw sewage into the Thornton River. Sperryville’8 proposed waste water treatment system is designed to clean up that pollution and the resulting contaminated wells. But with the estimated cost of the sewer project near $2 million, state and federal funding is necessary to bring monthly user fees down to a range that village residents can afford.
The State Water Control Board had allocated a $1.4 million construction grant to Sperryville for fiscal year 1983, funding was deferred, however, after the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development denied Rappahannock’s application for a $478,193 block grant in December.
Meeting in Richmond later that month with officials from all the involved agencies, WSA members learned that failure to secure the block grant came from a misunderstanding of
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