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BY GERALD OCHS
Rappahannock News Special Writer
The recommendations of the Washington Waste Water Committee met with significant resistance at a public hearing Monday night. The committee and its consultant, David Taylor of Resource International of Ashland, Va., proposed that the Town of Washington build a waste water collection and treatment system for the town’s 120 water service customers, to be located in the town on a parcel to be acquired.
This system, according to the consultant’s estimate, would cost nearly $1.5 million, exclusive of the cost of land acquisition, and would require an estimated $20,000 per year to operate.
The system proposed by Resource International would consist of a combination pressure and gravity collection system, a “low tech” recirculating sand filter treatment system, and a subsurface soil absorption effluent disposal system. It is “low-maintenance and very efficient,” Mr. Taylor said, and it would correct the septic system problems in the town center that led to the creation of the committee some four years ago.
Public comment on the proposed system focused on a few key issues: questions as to the extent of the existing septic problem; the size and cost of the recommend
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