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By Stephen Dareing
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
After an often contentious two-hour special meeting with more than 60 property owners and residents who came prepared with notebooks and facts, the Washington Town Council voted unanimously to proceed with the wastewater project and to authorize the town's engineering firm to give notice to proceed to the contractors.
Saying, “We need the sewer, the time has come, the time is now," council member John Sullivan told the crowd it was time for the town to reconfirm its commitment teethe project to a mostly happy audience.
Construction^ the project will begin in January.
There were those who still thought the project was just too expensive for the town, and that the project should at least be delayed while other less expensive alternatives were pursued.
Sullivan took the lead in explaining a new finance model that would spread out payments for four to six years of the initial hook up fees. Those fees had also been altered and new categories laid out for different types of users.
They were: Residential, government, commercial (non-residential excluding restaurants), and restaurants.
Different peak use factors - numbers used to multiply peak use to estimate high volume wastewater flow - were also altered in that there was no longer a
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