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“We only guarantee them for six months, other than that we don’t do it,” Mr. Johnson said. “Someone could come into Sperryville and open up a motel and request 20 EDU’s. Then three weeks later someone buys this complex and needs five. Unless he’s paying for them and holding on to them, then he doesn’t have them.”
Mr. Leggett suggested that letters responding to a requested reduction such as Mr. Sharp’s note that the authority would not guarantee the availability of increased EDU’s in the future.
“I don’t think we have to worry about that for at least 10 years,” Mr. Swindler said.
Mr. Johnson noted that many Sperryville property owners are paying for EDU’s in the system who are not even hooked up to it, “some still don’t have bathrooms, some are not using them because they don’t have enough water. A lot of stores don’t have restrooms that are open to the public.”
He said that three new wells had been drilled in Sperryville in the past week. “If every one of those 273 was using as much water as our house, we’d be bumping that 55,000 gallon limit,” he said.
Mr. Johnson said that in the late 1920’s and early 30’s some private water systems were built in Sperryville to serve several houses. Most of those systems provide very little water now, and more and more property owners are drilling wells. He said that as more and more properties that have been paying for EDU’s they are not using are hooked up and as more and more properties get an adequate water supply, it will become clear that the Sperryville sewer plant does not have a lot of excess capacity.
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