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line of comment, questioning a town-wide solution and suggesting that the Town and the Health Department focus on those properties with faulty septic systems.
Piedmont Environmental Council’s (PEC) Rappahannock office staffer Deborah Hicks reiterated PEC’s offer to provide support to reinvestigate the problem and to find a better solution, and other residents joined the chorus of opposition to the land purchase and to the town-wide sewage treatment solution.
After closing the public hearing, Mayor Willis announced his opposition to the land purchase and to town-wide sewage treatment, saying that “we need to identify the problems that we have and do something about them and do so without causing development.” Alice Butler entered a motion to cancel the option on the land, and the motion carried. Wastewater Study Committee
Wastewater Study Committee member Charlie Tompkins provided an answer raised at Monday’s hearing, noting that there were 49 parcels in Washington that had septic problems—17 had evidence of problem, 12 had septic space limitation, and 20 had the potential for problem. Bill Tieckelmann again raised the question of
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