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ber Velma Smith, was called by South Wales Inc. because it objected to the level of pollutants it would be permitted to dump into the Rappahannock under terms of a draft permit.
Much of Krumpfs presentation dealt with the specific limits on effluents that the draft permit will allow. The presentation addressed complex scientific matters such as the amount of organic decay, suspended solids and chlorine that will allowed to be pumped into the river.
South Wales Inc.’s position in February, as stated by Krumpf, was that the SWCB had imposed “overly stringent effluent limitations.” But at the Monday hearing, Ryan said his client was “gratified” by the relaxed ammonia limitations as was prepared to “set a standard of excellence for discharge into the Rappahannock River.”
Donna Harper, supervisor of the Fredericksburg Water Works, said the city uses the Rappahannock for drinking water, and the South Wales plant might adversely affect its ability to get clean water from the river.
Kitty Smith, speaking on behalf of Citizens for Fauquier, requested that the SWCB develop a "comprehensive plan to allocate sewage discharge" into the river, and that an adequate sludge disposal system should be developed by Culpeper before the plant is allowed.
She also requested an environmental impact study that would address the effect of the plan on the surrounding agricultural and forestal districts, including the district across the Rappahannock from South Wales in Fauquier.
Deborah Wassenaar, an attorney hired by the Piedmont Environmental Council, described the Rappahannock as one of the very few unspoiled rivers left on the entire east coast of the U.S,
She blasted the proposed sewage treatment plant, and the SW CB’s methods for computing effluent discharge limits.
“Without question, the Rappahannock will be significantly degraded,” she said.
Almost all of the “assimilative capacity" of the river to accept wastewater discharge will be used up by South Wales, thereby making other such plants on the river impossible, she argued.
A Spotsylvania man, Roy M. Stanley II, said he felt “anger, frustration ... a little bit of disgust, and quite a bit of fear” about the proposed development.
The Chesapeake Bay clean-up, he said, “begins in this room.”
“Don’t damage the water that belongs to the people of Virginia just as we’re trying to protect it,” he said, then offered a suggestion:
“Make them locate the plant on the upstream end of their property,” he said, and was drowned out by applause.
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