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Discharge
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creek. Not a river,” she said.
Even so, the Tbwn Council voted unanimously to approve the funds (roughly $9,000) to apply for a permit to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality to determine the feasibility of discharging into the Rush River, one of three options being considered by the town in its 15-year quest to resolve its wastewater problems. (Sperryville’s system took 23 years, from 1962-1985).
The other two options are a drip irrigation system ($4.5 million) and conveyance for treatment to Sperryville’s wastewater treatment plant ($4.8 million). The estimated cost of treatment and discharge to the Rush River is nearly $3 million.
DEQ is the same department Haskell helped create 30 years ago and oversaw its work when she was Secretary of Natural Resources under then Gov. Douglas Wilder.
Haskell spoke during a Q & A session which followed a presentation by Herbert F. White, president of an engineering firm, WW Associates, who outlined the three options for the town.
Some 22 persons, most of whom were from the town, attended the meeting in the Tbwn Hall which was devoted entirely to the wastewater management issue.
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