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outside the flood plain. "No one has been able to tell us definitely if it’s in the flood plain or not.” he said, adding that the site's stoney. alluvial soil, while generally considered flood plain type, could be the result of an old abandoned mill race- thatonce went through the lot.

Flood Plain On Maps

Zoning administrator Evan McNear agreed that the county's zoning maps and tests done by the Culpeper Soil Conservation Service showed the property as flood plain. He acknowledged, however, that he'd yet to talk to anyone in the vicinity of Peola Mills who remembered the site ever flooding.

Christie volunteered that she'd checked the house during the August floods that swept through Sperryville and found both building and nine-acre lot "dry as a bone.”

Admiral Gardiner stated that he would want to see a map showing the location of the house, the property’s elevation and the proposed drain field site. “There are two lawyers on this case and neither one is competant to

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