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would not be able to process applications until sometime in April.
The supervisors also learned Monday that both public schools are facing expensive requirements to upgrade their septic systems.
Assistant Superintendent Robert Chappell said representatives from the State Water Control Board and the State Health Department had looked at the systems at both schools. He said they had suggested that at the high school the polishing pond is probably leaking. Mr. Chappell said the water going into the polishing pond is already treated, but that the school system would probably fill the pond rather than put in a liner. The water would then go directly from the sand filters to the chlorine contact tank. He said the school might also be required to add a dechlorinator to the system.
At the elementary school the permit for the lagoon must be renewed by August 1993. He said the school system would have to apply for a new permit eight months earlier, and the representatives from the SWCB and the Health Department said the school system would probably be required to put in a liner to get a new permit.
He said the budget for next year would reflect the changes required for the high school and the following budget would include funds for the liner for the elementary school lagoon.
The board also learned that Judge Shore Robertson appointed Henry Hudson, Eileen Day, John Ralph and E. Franklyn Warner to the Equalization Board. They will receive training from the state and begin hearing appeals from the recent reassessment starting in April, County Administrator John McCarthy said.
Mr. McCarthy also informed the board that some bills had passed the General Assembly that would help the county hold down expenses at the landfill. The county will be able to close the current landfill cell this fall following EPA guidelines rather than the more stringent state requirements, he said. Also the county may not have to put in a double liner on the cell that will be used after January 1994. A different composition liner may be satisfactory. It will cost somewhat less than the double liner and will allow the new cell to last longer before becoming filled.
He said also the county would be allowed to have a “leachate injection system.” The leachate collected at the landfill would be injected back into the landfill and the county would not have to pay to have the leachate pumped and hauled to a sewage treatment plant.
Mr. McCarthy said he and Board of Supervisors Chairman Hubert Gilkey and Piedmont District representative Charles K. “Pete” Estes had met with representatives from Page and Warren counties to explore the idea of a regional landfill in Page County. They will meet again later this month and try to iron out details for an authority to operate the regional landfill.
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