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It will continue to be against the law to spread sludge or septage generated outside Rappahannock on county land — at least until the Water and Sewer Authority determines if it can find a hauler for sludge and septage from Sperryville’s sewer system.
At Monday’s board meeting, WSA member Del Price warned the supervisors that unless they adopt a sludge disposal plan by mid-July, they may be putting Sperryville’s sewage treatment plant “in jeopardy, very serious jeopardy.”
He noted that the local health official responsible for overseeing disposal of solid wastes has declared the board’s intention of dumping Sperryville’s sludge in the county landfill to be no plan at all. Mr. Price also called the 48 pound projection on the amount of sludge the Sperryville plant will produce “totally simplistic.” That figure refers to dry sludge, he said, and the Sperryville plant will be producing wet sludge in amounts yet to be determined, despite efforts by project engineers to arrive at an estimate.
The sewage treatment facility has a certificate to operate contingent upon submission of a sludge and septage disposal plan to the state by July 15, according to the WSA member. With no plan, the facility will be inoperable, and then the county may face “a bunch of lawsuits” from state and federal agencies over mismanagement of $2.1 million in grant funds spent on the Sperryville project, Mr. Price warned.
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