“I’m not concerned about

“I’m not concerned about

egos; I’m concerned about

the economic health of the

county.”

Eugene Leggett

“It seems the county is not approaching this in a systematic way,” Mr. Leggett said. “The pieces are emerging, the schools, the commercial district the Town of Washington. There are going to be more of these things. We’ll probably do it the most expensive way. I’m not looking for this board to get a new challenge, but everyone knows the Town of Washington is a sewage nightmare. There are at least a dozen houses that would flunk a test.

“Maybe it’s cheaper to expand the plant we have and keep the number of employees at a minimum than to build three systems,” he continued.

“What the school is doing is a step in the right direction,” Mr. Estes said.

“No one will do it until they are forced to,” Mr. Leggett said.

“It’s just a matter of time if the Town of Washington is going to continue to function,” Mr. Johnson added.

“We’ll end up with two independent organizations each with 200 customers trying to support these,” Mr. Leggett said. “We know how hard it is with our 150 customers.”

“There is an economy of scale,” Mr. Estes said. “You need one plant operator per shift.”

“One plant operator is half our budget,” Mr. Leggett noted. “Should we take the initiative and approach the Board of Supervisors, perhaps with a letter?”

“I don’t think it’s our initiative,” Mr. Johnson said. “It’s up to the Board of Supervisors to assign it to us.” He added that the WSA’s primary responsibility is to take care of the Sperryville plant and that the state and federal government are going to take a hard look at that because the plant was built entirely with federal and state funds.

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