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By Don Audette
Special to the Rappahannock News
A little over a century ago the first sewer system in Culpeper County came into being. On July 23, 1900, the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors offered to contribute $400 toward the Tbwn of Culpeper’s first sewage system with one proviso: the Town Council had to agree that the county jailhouse and court house would be perpetually connected to the sewer. Having accepted the offer, the town’s sewer system was built in one year. Two sewer pipes made their way through the town, joined, and then the system ended along Brandy Road (now Old Brandy Road) just before the current bridge over Mountain Run. Raw sewage ran directly into the stream.
Some time in the early 1900s, a basic wastewater treatment plant was built at the Mountain Run end. You can still see its concrete settling tanks, now fenced in with barbed wire on top, where sewage was pumped in so liquids could drain out to the stream through rock and sand filter beds, while sludge remained on top to dry in the air. The brick building nearby is the old pump house.
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