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By JANE BANGLEY Rappahannock News Staff Writer Washington Town Mayor Peter Kramer suggested that a public hearing on a cross-control water ordinance be readvertised for the November meeting. Kramer said the hearing should be scheduled so the public can be made more aware of the state-required ordinance. The State Water Control Board is requiring localities to pass crosscontrol ordinances to prevent drawback of waste or chemicals from residences or businesses into water supplies. The town’s water system would be protected by either installing one. way check flow valves on every water meter in town or by requiring every residence and business to have valves installed on each pressurized appliance or other item using water (including washers, garden hoses, etc.). The town would have someone inspect pressurized water appliances in each home and business if separate valves are required. “I would be concerned about authorizing some young, roving commissar to go into homes and inspect faucets,” Wickens said. “The simplest way would be to put a valve on each meter,” said Brad Fisher, director of the town water works. “The valves cost $17 each, but I could get a better deal if I buy them all at the same time.”
^ Whether the town or individual . water users would pay for the meter 1 valves was one of the council’s ques* tions. “I am in favor of the meter * valve, but I would want the cost to - be the property owner’s responsibil* ity,” Councilman Newbill Miller l said. I Fisher said the town is one of a ; few towns in the state that has not * passed a cross control ordinance and is in violation of state cross control - regulations without the ordinance. * “The probability of the back flow * of toxic material into the water supl ply here is highly unlikely, though,” “ Fisher said. " Miller said the system has been » drained before, so the back-flow * probability is not that remote. t Fisher was asked to find out if I the ordinance can be changed in any ^ way before re-advertising the public * hearing. * In other action, the council approved a special use permit that will ! allow James and Nancy Thomasson
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