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Sperryville’s designation as the state’s fifth most serious health hazard and the concurrent award of $2 million in state and federal grants for construction of a sewer system to clean up the mess.

Local ordinances, adopted persuant to grant regulations, require all households and businesses within the Sperryville service district to connect to the system. The only exception to this mandate comes through Health Department certification that an existing septic field is adequately handling waste disposal.

Mr. Atkins, who maintains both

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