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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Rappahannock’s Water and Sewer Authority took the first step last week towards requiring the lone holdout to connect to the new Sperryville sewer system, requesting the Health Department to run a dye test to determine if Alson Atkins’ septic field is functioning properly.
For at least two decades, malfunctioning septic fields in Sperryville’s flood plain soils dumped raw sewage into the Thornton River, which flows through the village’s back yards. The pollution led to
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