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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The ordinance being considered for adoption by the Town of Washington to protect its water supply is apparently a valid use of powers granted by the state legislature, according to a letter received from the Office of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The letter was written in response to a request from Diane Bruce, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, for an opinion on the authority of the town to adopt such an ordinance, and whether the county would be bound by its terms. The proposed ordinance would require “the registration and approval of any waste disposal facility . . . located . . . within three statute miles of the water wells owned and operated by the Town.”
The Town of Washington has cited as its authority for the enactment of such an ordinance Section 15.1-292 of the Virginia State Code, which designates “General powers of counties, cities and town as to public utilities; pollution of water.” Specifically, the law states that “The governing body of every county, city and town . . . may also prevent the pollution of water and injury to waterworks for which purpose their jurisdiction shall extend to five miles about the same...”
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