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RAPPAHANNOCK’S Planning Commissioners have been told that the hardest part of implementing Erosion and Sedimentation Control Ordinances is educating the public. James F. Blair, representing the state Soil and Water Conservation Commission, spoke to the planners at their meeting Wednesday night, February 26.
All counties in Virginia are required to adopt an ordinance for erosion and sedimentation control before July 1. If a county doesn’t adopt their own ordinance, the Soil and Water Conservation District has been directed by the legislature to enforce the state ordinance, Blair said.
An Erosion and Sedimentation Control Ordinance would require that anyone who undertakes “land disturbing” activity will have to prepare a complete plan on how he proposes to carry out his project and what steps he will take to “stabilize” and minimize soil disturbance. If the individual or contractor who has prepared the plan doesn’t carry ii out, the county must complete the plan, Blair said. So it is important for the county to obtain bond or a “letter of credit” from that individual in advance of the project, he said.
Chairman Herbert Barksdale said he- thought it would be better for Rappahannock County to draw up the ordinance than for the “fivecounty group,” the Soil and Water Conservation District, to do it for them.
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