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tailed hydrological study is not a delaying tactic. “I’m doing it because I’m concerned with every face out here and those who aren’t here,” he told the 30-some people at Friday’s meeting.
The audience included Cathy Smith, who has repeatedly raised the specter of existing groundwater contamination in the area from abandoned dumps nearby, both in Rappahannock and just over the line in Culpeper County. She reported that her well, down gradient from the old dumps, is already contaminated. But to questions, she noted that the contamination discovered in tests conducted by the Health Department is from fecal choliform (commonly associated with malfunctioning septic fields or runoff from pastures where livestock is quartered).
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