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the issue before the Planning Commission.
Local Ordinances
According to District Sanitation Superintendent William Burke, Health Department engineers have a limited control over small community water systems through approval of drainfields. He said that engineers can require a drainfield to be located so that it doesn't present a hazard to water sources.
In addition, Burke reported that Virginia's water control law, enforced by the State Water Control Board, forbids the contamination of surface or underground waters with pollutants. However, he noted that the water control law wouldn’t apply to the situation at Rappahannock Lakes because the polluted water source was a reservoir, not a spring. "We don’t know where the spring is actually located,” he said, which makes it impossible to prove that the septic field is contaminating the spring itself.
The Health Department’s approach to controlling community water systems has been through encouragement of local ordinances, according to Burke. He said that both Culpeper and Fauquier Counties had adopted local regulations.
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