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By CINDY MAHAN
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Representatives of Resources Int. presented the results of a needs assessment study on waste water for the town at last week’s Town Council meeting.
Dave Taylor and Charlie Reidlinger of Resources Int. did not want to alarm any town residents, but they said that between 10 and 15 percent of septic systems in the town have had failure problems. The present systems are of the age where they expect a lot of failures in the near future, said the men.
The company said that about 15 percent of the lots in town, especially in the Gay St. area, are so small that they are not big enough for an adequate drainfield.
Streams around town have been tested for pollutants, but the company said there was only a slightly elevated rate of fecal coliform found, and it could not be determined if that was from overflow or animals. They said it posed no serious environmental pollution in the streamwater ditches, where the water was tested. Also, a study was done on the Rush River and it was fine.
Though Council members pushed for answers to exactly where failing systems are in town, the men from Resource said that it was difficult to tell from the records from the Health Department.
Charles Tompkins, who is head of the waste water committee, said that
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