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It looks like Rappahannock County will be able to continue its moratorium on land application of septage and sludge or even turn the temporary ban into a prohibition without worrying over a final resting place for the byproducts of Sperryville’s sewage treatment plant.
According to James Swindler Jr., secretary for the Rappahannock Water and Sewer Authority, the WSA has a tentative contract with Rosebud Waste Hauling Company from Culpeper to dispose of the septage pumped from the individual tanks that are part of the Sperryville system.
The company has also found a disposal site for the sludge generated by the Sperryville treatment plant, Mr. Swindler said. “They’ve told us that they’ve found a place to take it, but they haven’t given us a price on that yet.”
To get a certificate from the state for the new facility, the WSA was required to submit a plan to dispose of the sludge left over from the purification process at the treatment plant. In essence, the plan was only a promise to find a disposal site. Fulfillment of that promise was complicated first by Culpeper’s backing out of an earlier agreement to accept the treatment byproduct and the septage which must be routinely pumped from the individual septic tanks.
The WSA turned to the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors which
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