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By James S. Willis Special to the Rappahannock News
During the Town Council meeting of Nov. 13, some Council Members and a member of the public expressed uncertainty as to what was being done in the design of the drain field for the Town of Washington wastewater treatment system behind Avon Hall This drain field is described in the draft Preliminary Engineering Report (PER) that is currently being reviewed by the Town and is available at the Town Hall between 11 a m. and 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for those interested.
Further comments by a member of Town Council indicated a lack of knowledge of what a PER is, how we got to the point we are now at, and what the PER will be used for in the future. Further, I learned this week that a Council member had told some new people in Town that only half the Town would be addressed by the planned wastewater treatment system.
The validity of this can be argued, but the fact is that all buildings in Town are being addressed in the design, but only 83 percent of the waste disposal will be addressed in the first phase under current plans.
All of this has caused me great concern and discomfort. What I am hearing is that some members of Town Council who voted to buy Avon Hall to use it as a wastewater treatment facility do not fully understand what they are doing. That’s scary. To help solve this problem, I will ask, at Town Council’s request, a member of our design engineering firm to come to Washington and provide a tour and discussion of the drain field. I expect that this will happen around the 10th of December. Information about the tour
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