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To the editor
This letter was sent to the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors, and may be of interest to readers.
William J. Keim
^"To the Board of Supervisors:
First, we must note that as Colonel McNear stated a few years ago when he was zoning administrator, “the Entrepreneurs are here.” We are faced with a group of speculators or their successsors who failed to make their “stake” pay and now seek other means to recoup and make a “strike.”
I submit that other, better sites are available for the construction proposed.
I side with the Rush River valley residents and those who fear possible contamination of their water supply and would never approve this project. However, and much more timely and important, the EPA spent $25 million and five years to find that the greatest estuary in the world, the Chesapeake Bay was in very bad shape.
The failure of the Blue Plains Sewer Treatment Facility last spring dumped about 25 million gallons a day of raw sewage for six months into the Potomac. Now, of course, we see vast algae growth being fenced off. The Bay hurts.
The Governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia met some months ago, recognized the problem, and pledged funds to start the cleanup. Maryland legislators provided $13.8 million and many new, tougher laws.
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