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was not at all happy to learn that Mr. Lockhart was not going to do anything to approve or disapprove a well.” Mr. Hur said, adding that he’d checked with the Health Department office in Culpeper and learned that a well with special mod,ifications can be installed closer than the 100-foot standard setback distance from septic drain fields.
With the conditions of perc test, affirmation that the septic field meets 1988 standards, and approval of the private water well, the BZA voted 3-2, with Mr. Kramer and Mr. Zindel opposed, to grant the variance.
After learning of situation. Health Department promises investigation
Charles Shepherd, regional sanitation supervisor, said in a telephone interview Monday that the minimum setback for an approved well is 50 feet from the foundation of the house, 50 feet from the drain field and septic tank, and 10 feet from property lines. In a lot only 150 feet long, those setback regulations would be difficult — if not impossible — to meet, he noted.
Mr. Shepherd also said that the Health Department will be willing to work with the landowner to satisfy the BZA’s condition of a perc test. He confirmed that percolation tests were rare-ly conducted in the past and are done now primarily with subdivision approval.
According to Hugh Eggbome, the Health Department engineer responsible for overseeing community water systems, the records do not show Rappahannock Lakes as being served by a public system.
The system previously met the standards for Department monitoring — 25 people served 60 days of the year or 15 service connections. In 1979, when tests showed the water being carried to the house., in Rappahannock Lakes was contaminated by fecal choliform, the Health Department ordered a spring downhill from a septic field disconnected and the primary water well dug 60 feet deeper and a new pressure switch installed.
But Mr. Eggbome, who took his post in 1980, said that “there’s been no activity” since before he became responsible for community water systems. The file on Rappahannock Lakes contains no recent water quality data and “we’re not providing any supervision for that system,” he said, guessing that the department had been advised prior to his assuming his post that it wras no longer a public system. “We will be investigating,” he said. “If it serves 25 people or has 15 connections, it's a public water supply and we’ll be back in the picture.”
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