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“Basically, the ones that I’ve read about weren’t well-engineered. The money wasn’t spent for good design and properly trained personnel to maintain (the plant).”
Even waste water treatment plants that meet all Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards and state health department requirements are suspect, Dennis maintains.
To illustrate the point, Dennis told of a waste water treatment plant at a restaurant at which an engineer hired to determine what was wrong spent two days unplugging pipes.
“The record is full of privately owned (plants) that don’t run right, and are later turned over to the county,” Dennis says.
Monetary Reasons
Dennis explains why, for many reasons, the waste water treatment system to be placed in Sperryville will do the job it’s intended to do.
“We’re a public agency. We must, absolutely, meet the requirements to clean up the Thornton River. If we need to spend more money — we will.
“I have no idea what is proposed (for the adult home to be built in Harris Hollow),” Dennis adds. “The question comes down to whether or not the owner will cut some comers to reduce costs.”
Wayne Stanton of Culpeper, who will engineer the waste water treatment plant for the adult home in Harris Hollow, would not comment on the plant to be constructed.
“I prefer not to,” he said. “Normally we don’t talk to the press. We leave that up to the client.”
The client, Sam Snead, did comment on the waste water treatment facility, but declined to discuss specifies. “Since they are going to have a facility in SperimdHs, we are open to the idea of having the authority ’ ' * our project to
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