Evening star., 1950-08-31
Fairfax SEWAGE
Plant Building
To Begin Jan. |
Contract Also Coils
For 230, 600 Feet
Of Disposal Lines
By jones BirchfieId

Construction of a sewage treat
ment plant for Fairfax County is
scheduled to begin January /.
This was disclosed yesterday at
a called meeting of the County
Board of Supervisors when a con-
tract with G. Hubbard Massey,
consulting engineer, was signed
by the board.
James J. Corbalis, jr., sanitary
engineer, said the construction
project also includes about $780,
600 feet of sewer lines. First to
be, constructed, he said, will be
the lines in the Groveton area.
He said construction of addi-
tional lines in the Baileys Cross
roads area is scheduled to begin
next spring, and work on lines in
the Falls Church area will start
next summer.
Completion in Is Months.
The disposal plant should be
completed within IS months after
construction work begins, Mr..
Corbalis said.
The contract with Mr.. Massey
for work in connection with de-
signing the plant and the sewer
lines, supersedes an old contract.
Plans for the Groveton lines are
about 95 per cent complete, and
the plant plans are about IS per
cent complete, it was said.
The Board faces opposition
from several groups in its tenta-
tive plans to locate the disposal
plant on a tract between the
Mount Vernon Memorial boule-
ward and Fort Hunt road in the
New Alexandria area.
Representing a New Alexandria
group, State Senator Andrew w.
Clarke asked the Board to in
vestigate the possibilities of join
ing Arlington and Alexandria in a
system whereby sewage could be
pumped under the Potomac to the
District plant at Blue Plains.
Commonwealth's Attorney Hugh
Marsh contended that no such use
could be made of the sewage
funds voted in a Sanitary District
No. l bond referendum.
Two Petitions Received.
The board>also received two pc
titions asking that the plant be
located elsewhere One, contain
ing 96 names, was from the New
Alexandria Citizens Association.
The other was a unanimous reso-
luton adopted by the County Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations.
The board took them under ad-
visement.
Reporting on an inspection tour
of seven disposal plants in New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, Mr..
Corbalis and Board Chairman G.
Wallace Carper said nowhere did
they find nuisance conditions
created by treatment plants.
Mr.. Corbalis said plants visited
ranged from those not yet carry
ing capacity loads to those CRATE
ly overloaded. In some instances,
he said, houses had been built
within 20 feet of the plants.
In no instance, he said, was
there any complaint on the part
of adjacent property owners.
considered as Parks"
MANY of those living near
these plants" Mr.. Corbalis said.
consider them more as parks
than anything else, since the
plant grounds are well cared for
and properly planted
Discussing civilian defense needs
with Col. Guy Church, county
civilian defense director, the
board authorized a conference in
Richmond with Gov. Battle to
determine what State aid might
be expected. He was accompanied
by Gen. Jacob L. Devers, retired
chief of the Army field forces,
who now lives in the county.
Following the morning session
board members visited the Dis
trict disposal plant at Blue
Plains, the Arlington County
plant and the site Of the pro-
posed Fairfax plant near New
Alexandria.