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The county must have a plan for the disposal of what for the treatment plant to receive an official operating certificate? Certainly not the treated liquid effluent which is already disposed of into the Thornton River, as planned. With no appreciable sludge generated at the treatment plant itself, we can only be discussing disposal of the sludge. to< be, generated in, and periodically removed from; the individual WSA septic tapks at each EDU. Except for the bacteriological breakdown of solids in these septic tanks (as in all septic tanks), there is no further treatment of this septic tank sludge contemplated, to my knowledge.
Further questions suggest themselves for the supervisors at this point:
• How much septic tank sludge is to be generated each year in the WSA septic tanks when all 250 EDU’s are hooked up to the system?
• Is this septic tank sludge (untreated except for bacteriological disintegration of solids and precipitation from sewage liquids) safe for disposal anywhere except for permanent storage in leak-proof and sealed reinforced concrete containers at the county’s new landfill?
• If considered safe, as is, for disposal anywhere in the county, what was the “Sperryville problem” in the first place? And why the expenditure of $2.1 million of taxpayers funds for the construction of the treatment plant?
One thing seems to be sure. The disposal of the septic tank sludge (or any other sludge) from Sperryville or elsewhere in the county on land here invites the introduction of outside sludge, including Blue Plains sludge produced in the D.C. area, as surely as lawyers exist ready to force our hand in the courtroom.
We must bear in mind that the State Water Control Board and the Department of Health, as a matter of policy, want fecal sludge spread on agricultural land here, as was made manifest at the recent hearing at the Gay Street Theater. To these questions, Rappahannock County is only a small part of their total, statewide waste disposal problem. Both agencies will enter that courtroom as “a friend to the court,” no doubt, but not necessarily as a friend of this small county. They were not friends of this county or of the Rush River in the “Harris Hollow” case, as you will remember!
I suggest that the supervisors keep our moratorium against the introduction of outside sludge in full effect and protest this moratorium against legal attack by finding an
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