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large development in Culpeper County is being designed to discharge up to 600.000 gallons per day of treated effluent into the Rappahannock River.
Is there a way to visualize this amount? A gasoline tanker truck, refilling a gas station, holds about 10,000 gallons. Visualize 60 truckfulls.
Longlea, right next to Rappahannock County on Route 522 and zoned by Culpeper County for 1,000 homes, a conference center, and commercial development, is in the news lately. A request for a use permit to build a managed wastewater treatment plant to discharge up to 450,000 gallons per day of effluent into the Hazel River has been tabled by Culpeper County’s Board of Supervisors until September. 45 truckfulls.
A Big Dog, the Fairfax County Wastewater Treatment Facility, has 3,200 miles of sewer pipe. This managed system processes 100 millions gallons of wastewater each day, discharging it eventually into the Potomac River. 10,000 truckfulls.
In Sperryville, Rappahannock County’s only publicly managed wastewater treatment plant has a permit to discharge up to 150.000 gallons per day of effluent into the Thornton River, but the current discharge is about 75,000 gallons. 7,f> truckfulls.
The key word here is “managed.” Centralized systems involve people on pay
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