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By SHARON KILPATRICK
RappafcMMCk Niwi Staff Writer
The Water and Sewer Authority is hoping the state’s Department of Environmental Quality will keep the cidery in Sperryville from discharging into Sperryville’s sewer system.
Twice the sewer plant has been disrupted by discharges from the cidery.
At a meeting in April member Carson Johnson said he visited the plant last summer when he heard it had been opened to determine how much the charges should be increased because another business had opened in the building which is owned by Alex Sharp.
He learned that the cidery had been ordered to stop discharging into the .Thornton Rive'r and the owners of the business had installed a large tank at a lower elevation than the sewer system’s tank and a grinder pump to pump to the sewer tank. He said the drain to the new tank also collected rainwater from the roof, and that means the business is contributing to inflow problems at the plant whenever it rains.
“Red flags went up right then,” he said, when he saw the new installation.
However, the primary problem with the discharge from the cidery has been the high biological content of the material sent to the Sperryville plant when tanks are washed out before a new batch is put in them.
DEQ has held at least one meeting with the owners of the cidery, and they have been ordered to have an
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