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At present, the WSA can contract with a private hauler to take the septage from tanks in the Sperryville system outside the county for disposal, he continued. But he noted that a probable disposal site in Culpeper County is now a potential suspect in alleged ground water contamination and may be closed by the State Water Control Board.
Mr. Price asked the supervisors to continue the current moratorium on land application of sludge and septage until the WSA opens bids for hauling Sperryville’s sewage residue. If the county replaces the temporary moratorium with an ordinance that prohibits the spreading of sludge, if the county has no landfill and if the WSA is unable to contract for hauling sludge past the county line, “we’ll have an inoperable treatment plant, leaving the door wide open to a suit over misuse of $2.1 million in federal and state grant funds,” Mr. Price said. “If there’s no compelling reason to abandon the moratorium, we ask that you keep it in place until one or more of these problems are solved.”
Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke noted that the moratorium has “a built-in legal question mark by discriminating against out-of-county sludge.” In addition, he pointed out that the prohibition was intended to be temporary until a study could be completed to determine the capability of county land for land application of septage and sludge; that study has been done. But Mr. Luke advised that the supervisors face “no
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