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pahannock County Park is packaged in a big folder crammed with official looking forms and supporting affadavits. Rec authority members gathered the necessary information for the grant application under the direction of John Capelle, executive director of the Rappahannock-Rapid an Planning District Commission. Key assistance was also provided by J. A. B. Dahlgren of Huntly who appraised the six acre parcel and improvements, Bruce noted.
Originally, the rec authority members wanted to build a public swimming pool on the property. They found, however, that a pool would cost about $200,000 to build. “And that’s just a small one, not an Olympic pool,” Bruce noted. In addition, she emphasized, continued maintenance costs would be high for a swimming pool.
"To get the money for a pool, the authority members would have had to take out a note for $35,000 just to come up with our matching share,” Bruce said. She pointed out that Madison County was forced to close its public pool, a going concern for many years, last summer when the operation didn’t make enough money to support itself. “We figured if they couldn’t do it, we certainly couldn’t here.”
Bruce also noted that space was a factor in considerations of pool construction or adding a baseball or soccer field. Nothing can be built under the major power transmission line that crosses the property and building in flood plain along the river bank is restricted. “With what we’ve got, what can we build? There’s not much of that six acres that we can do a lot with,” she said.
In addition, athletic courts have been in the planning stages for several years. When the Department of Housing and Urban Development turned down a grant application for a swimming pool from the Rappahannock Recreation Center (forerunner of the rec authority) four years ago, organizers tried to get together enough money to build an all purpose basketball court, figuring they needed about $5,000.
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