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The waste water treatment facility proposed for an adult home in Harris Hollow may be the solution to concerns over environmental impact. Then again, it may not.
According to experts, waste water treatment facilities work well... If.
The “if’ concerns maintenance.
“I wouldn’t hesitate a moment on them — at least as we operate them,” says Robert Jacobsen, superintendent of Shenandoah National Park. The park maintains five waste water treatment facilities.
Each is maintained by experts, Mr. Jacobsen notes. And the maintenance people are proud of their work.
“We have several years experience with these facilities,” Mr. Jacobsen offers. “(Our) waste water treatment plant operators work eight hours per day.
“They (plant operators) must be state certified; the standards are the same outside the park.”
The employees at Shenandoah National Park are so proud of their waste water treatment facilities that they open them to the public, Jacobsen says.
“We’re sufficiently proud of them...especially the one at Big Meadows. I’d encourage your readers to drive up and visit. Our operators are glad to give them a tour and an explanation, if they’re not too busy.”
Jacobsen is convinced that many people — and agencies — busy themselves with making sure waste >' water treatment plants in Shenandoah National Park aren’t iffy. He’s positive about the park’s track record.
“We’re treating kitchen, washroom, laundry and human wastes,” he says. “I believe the state health standards are tight enough and the state’s monitoring and enforcement is conscientious enough.”
Treated effluent from one of the waste water treatment facilities in the park empties into the Thornton River at Thornton Gap, parallel to Route 2U.
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