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DAPHNE HITCHINSON
Rappahannock Staff V ritrr
There’s nothing the local Health Department can do to force improvements to a dangerously polluted water system that serves 20 houses at Rappahannock Lakes subdivision, according to District Health Department Director Dr. R. S. LeGarde.
“Legally, I've got no clout," he told the Rappahannock Supervisors at last Thursday’s Board meeting. LeGarde explained that, under state law, the Health Department had enforcement powers to regulate community water systems only if the system served more than 25 people for three or more months out of the year.
"That means you can kill 25 people but not 26," interjected Commonwealth Attorney George Davis.
LeGarde continued that the property owners of the 20 weekend-vacation homes in Rappahannock Lakes had agreed to “physically separate” their community well from a polluted, supplemental water source. To allow control over small water systems, LeGarde asked for the Board’s support to discuss a water ordinance—"something simple”—with the Planning Comission.
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