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RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY is a member of a regional planning district which is now considering a series of sometimes grandiose “wastewater management” proposals—sewer systems, we common folk call them.
So far, Rappahannock’s representatives seem to be well aware of what is involved. In pressing for a low-cost, no-growth solution to Sperryville’s pollution problem, they have demonstrated a high level of common sense, a commodity not always evident in other parts of the district. If the regional planners should start including Rappahannock in some of their more ambitious regional proposals, then we hope a hue and cry is raised.
Sewer systems are a peculiar problem of good planning and growth management. Environmentalists used to automatically mark them down as a Good Thing. A sewer system meant an end to mindless pollution; it meant cleaner streams.
No longer. The history of badly controlled growth in Northern Virginia and metropolitan Maryland suburbs has been that sewer systems stimulated boom conditions, not controlled them. And a special aspect of the problem of sewers is coming to a head in neighboring Fauquier County.
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