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County proceeds with restaurant’s septic repairs

State health officials and engineers have determined that the septic system at the county-owned Seabreeze Restaurant property on Gwynn’s Island is repairable, said County Administrator Mindy Conner during Tuesday’s board meeting.

“They’re treating it as a system that needs repair, not a failed system,” she said.

Mathews County Building Official Jamie Wilks told board members that he had met recently with state and local representatives from the Virginia Department of Health and with the engineering firm the county has hired to work on the project, and that they are determining what repairs will be necessary.

“They assured me it was possible and it will be done,” he said.

Conner said that the county is getting close to a final lease, but that the draft lease is still being fine-tuned and that the septic issues have to be resolved before the lease can be signed with new tenants. She told the board that, since the Seabreeze is on county-owned ...

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