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Ms. sorter tamea aDOut tne problems that had followed rapid suburbanization in Prince William County. “We’re in a mess,”.she said. “I don’t know how relevant what I have to say will be to you and your problems. But maybe we can help you not to make the same mistakes.”
The Prince William League for Protection of Natural Resources was formed to fight the Marriott Corporation’s proposal to build a giant Disneylike amusement park in Prince William. The League objected to Great America for several resons. It would be located adjacent to the Manassas Battlefield Park. That Park has been lucky so far in that it has been spared much of the tourist-oriented development that has occured around other National Battlefield Parks, like Gettysburg, Ms. Porter said.
Marriott’s park would place an additional strain on the Occoquan watershed which serves as the drinking supply for 600,000 people. Since 1969, the Occoquan reservoir has been considered “dead,” she said. Only the top ten feet of the reservoir can be drawn upon for drinking water because the deeper waters are so heavily polluted and silted. As a result, the State Water Control Board has imposed the most rig
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