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“It’s the only stream we put effluent into in Rappahannock County,” Jacobsen says. “It’s a good fishing stream, a trout stream, although it’s not stocked in the park.”
The park had a few problems initially, Jacobsen notes. “We have had a couple of overflows due to heavy infiltration (of rain) early on.”
Those problems were transitional, he maintains, and part of changing over from an antiquated waste water treatment system in the park. Today, it’s a different story.
“Some of our operators say that it’s (treated waste water) better than well water at the other end. Cleaner, clearer, purer,” Jacobsen concludes.
Grave Concerns
Robert T. Dennis, president of the Piedmont Environmental Council and chairman of the Rappahannock County Water and Sewer Authority, doesn’t paint the same picture.
“(Waste water treatment plants) are supposed to sit there and more or less run themselves,” he says. They can do a good job, but unfortunately, a lot of them don’t.”
Dennis is in charge of a waste water packagetreatment plant soon to be installed in Sperryville. He contends that private ownership and maintenance of waste water treatment facilities, rather than public, leads to cost-cutting and shoddy maintenance.
“Obviously, the water and sewer authority will lean over backwards to make sure (the plant) in Sperryville will run right. It’a right off Route 522, handy to somebody who has to inspect it,” he says.
The point is, like anything you turn on, go away and leave, something can go wrong. You need someone who knows what they’re doing to superviae.”
Dennis cited examples where something did go wrong.
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