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BEACONDELMARVANOW.COM|7 Wallops Flight Facility invites the public to get a closer look at the activities inside the gates from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 27, as it celebrates i ts 70 th Anniversary. uring the day, participants will be able to tour many of the facilities including those for sounding rockets, scientific balloons, the launch range and aircraft operations. In addition, there will be exhibits from various organizations that operate at Wallops, aircraft on display, resentations, workshops, entertainment, refreshments and activities for kids. ill Wrobel, Director of Wallops, said, has played a significant role in aerospace research in the United States since its first launch on June 27, 1945.

In addition, the facility has been a part of he Delmarva community and we want to open our gates and share this traditionally have opened our ates to the public every five years. This Open House is lining up to be our biggest and best Wrobel said. ne event new this year will be a 5K on the runways. Tours will be conducted of the launch facilities Wallops Island. Pre-registrationwill be required for both of these events.

More information on the Wallops 70 th Anniversary Open House is available at http://www.nasa.gov/content/wallops- flight-facility-70th-anniversary Wallops to hold pen House June 27 SUBMITTED AR TICLE town council members voted 4-0 to accept the sewer service agreement the Accomack County Board of Supervisors returned to it for approval. It a perfect agreement by any eans, but ready to cry uncle at this point said Mayor Russell Jones. in all, I think this is the beat deal going to be able to get you, unfortunately This is their final Town Manager G. Cabell Lawton IV aid. The Accomack County Board of Supervisors on May 20 voted 6-3 to return Onancock for approval a document board members called the final version of the agreement.

Terms of the agreement between the town and the county, whereby the town rovides sewage treatment services to acounty line serving a number of customers, have been under discussion for ore than two years. Voting against it were Supervisors Wanda Thornton, Kay Lewis and Ron olff. The agreement approved by the board and the town council is the soc alled rate it says Onancock agrees to receive sewage delivered from the county system for reatment and disposal and will charge the county more than the lowest published rate of general application to any volume of sewage produced by any sewer customer inside the town council in April voted to approve the lowest-rate option, one of three proposals sent it by the county. The rate agreed to means a loss to the town of around $10,000 in revenue for very million gallons of sewage treated, as compared to the current rate, yet we still get that flow, we still get hun- reds of thousands of dollars in fees from the Lawton said. need volume to put that thing in the said Council Member T.

Lee Byrd. hornton was among county supervisors who objected to the agreement, saying, we agree to this, our custom- rs are going to be paying the highest rate in the But Supervisor Robert Crockett, ho with Supervisor Donald Hart and Accomack County Administrator Steve Miner formed the committee charged ith working on the agreement, said the customers will save money compared to the cost if Accomack were construct its own plant. That plan would have resulted in the county charging its customers 40 percent more over what the town will charge he said. The agreement has a term of 40 ears, but either party can terminate it with at least 30 notice. he town had asked that provision, which at that point specified 18 months, rather than 30 months, be struck altogether.

my opinion, largely based pon their ability to build their own sys- em in that time Lawton said. The town in the agreement guarantees the county at least 150,000 gallons per day of treatment capacity. The town a few years ago upgraded its sewage treatment plant, including expanding the capacity from 250,000 to 7 50,000 gallons per day. Jones said the plant has plenty of capacity and the increased capacity uilt in part to be available for the central Accomack core, so that any expansion there would be served by that The final version does not include any of the changes the town had suggested, including language delineating acceptable limits for 15 different pollut- a nts. It instead says the two parties to work together in good faith to devel- appropriate, professionally guided pretreatment standards intended to ensure that the waters of Onancock Creek a re protected in accordance with valid state and that those standards when finalized will be adopted by the own and the county for enforcement.

757-787-1200, ext. 115 On Twitter Onancock, Accomack, agree on sewage deal CAROL VAUGHN STAFF WRITER a perfect agreement by any eans, but ready to cry uncle at this point RUSSELL JONES ONANCOCK MA YOR.