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In November, 1978, the Health Department’s division of engineering’s regional office in Culpeper went on record as believing that a contaminated spring at Rappahannock Lakes subdivision constituted “a hazard to the health” of families in 24 houses then hooked into the subdivision's public water system.
According to a letter dated November 6, 1978, from district engineer Gerald Higgins, water from the spring piped into homes
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