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RAPPAHANNOCK’S Supervisors will host a public hearing on a proposed erosion and sedimentation control ordinance at the October Supervisors’ meeting. The Supervisors aren’t exactly pleased with the proposed ordinance; it wasn’t their idea and several aren’t convinced it’s even necessary. But the State of Virginia requires it, Planning Commissioner Walter Masterson told the Board at its September meeting. “It’s another one of these deals where you’re wrong if you do and you’re wrong if you don’t.”
If Rappahannock County doesn’t adopt such an ordinance, the District Soil and Water Conservation District or the state of Virginia will impose one. So it’s better for Rappahannock to draw up its own ordinance, Planning Commission Chairman Herbert Barksdale said. “So we can get some reasonable thinking from the county instead of some unreasonable thinking out of Richmond,” he said.
The erosion and sedimentation ordinance will require anyone who undertakes a “land-disturbing activity” involving more than 10,000 square feet to draw up a plan outlining how he will try to prevent erosion and sedimentation resulting from the project. The plan will have to be approved by the county engineer who will make inspections of the construction site to make sure the developer follows his plan. The ordinance also requires that the builder be bonded—
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