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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock Newg Staff Writer
Washington Town Council decided to delay for a month making a decision on Camille Harris and Patrick Foster’s application for a special use permit to install a package sewage treatment system at Foster-Harris House.
Ms. Harris said the septic system at their house had failed and they had negotiated a lease with Col. and Mrs. Stewart Willis to pump from the Foster-Harris House to a drainfield on the Willis property. She said they were unable to negotiate a long term lease, and the agreement expires in May 1994.
“I’m not comfortable waiting any longer to be assured we have a place to put our effluent,” she said.
She added their property is on the market and they have potential buyers, but they won’t purchase without “knowing what will happen with the septic.”
She said they had explored alternatives and wanted the special use permit to allow them to put in a “multi-flow” system or a sand filtering system if they were unable to negotiate an extension when their agreement expires in 1994. She added that the State Water Control Board would require them to have a discharge permit and that the release would have to be 99.9 percent pure water.
Mayor Dean Morehouse noted that the town’s zoning ordinance allows package sewage treatment with a special use permit. He said that had been included in the ordinance at Ms. Harris’s request, but that the special use permit would only be good for one year. Ms. Harris would have to install it or come back to the council for an extension.
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