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Waste

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assessment and feasibility studies that indicated significant problems in some areas of the town—problems that lead to surface contamination with untreated sewage in wet periods, but the public participants appeared to reject these findings and called for a revisitation of the analyses that led to the townwide treatment system recommendation.

Committee member and Mayor Stewart Willis was one of the committee’s dissenting members, and he presented an alternative approach that focused on correcting the septic problems only where they exist, and not on providing a townwide system. He expressed his concerns that such a system would promote growth and development, and that “water system dollars are competing with sewer system dollars.”

He asked “why use a

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