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comments on the Rush River becoming “slimy and smelly” if the discharge isn’t done properly.
“Any implication this is a smelly, slimy stream, I take exception to that. That is not the case. I invite you to go to Sperryville and look at that plant or any treatment works built in the last 10 years—”
“On the day it’s working properly,” interrupted Haskell.
“A biological treatment system that is properly designed can furnish a level of water much better than those cows standing in the Rush River,” White shot back. “ I’m a farmer. Okay. That’s the reality of the situation.”
Residents attending the -meeting asked two dozen or so questions with the most asked by town resident Bill Tieckelmann.
Growth pressure
His question on whether it would be less expensive for the town if it chose the option of collecting and piping wastewater to the Sperryville plant prompted some telling remarks from Rappahannock County Administrator John McCarthy on what the supervisors were thinking about this issue.
“The board and I are extremely jaundiced about the notion of bringing all this new sewer line to an area which partially allows for some growth and development out near the schools but generally from there on west does not and creates the potential for growth pressures,” said
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