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The system, in the planning stages in Shenandoah County (and expected to cost several hundred thousand dollars), uses two tanks holding thousands of gallons of septage effluent to aerate and allow organic decomposition to begin before seeping into the regular sewage system.
Both counties hope to service their county septic tank owners only.
Rappahannock County has one sewage treatment plant, which serves the village of Sperry ville.
The “experimental package plant,” begun in 1986, serves the homes in Sperryville in a manner unlike other sewage treatment plants.
When sewage is flushed into another plant, all solids and liquids are sent to the plant.
In Sperryville, only liquids are sent to the plant, while the solids are sent to a septic tank, which is
See SEPTAGE, p. A-6
92.7%