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tried t>> provide you with the reassurances you want . . . Are you prepared to issue a building permit to him here today'”' Mr. Thorne asked, questioning whether he can sell the lot "without incurring any more financial loss" than he has already suffered.
Mr. Hur added that the Health Department wants to deal with the water supply problem first “because the septic system is not going to be any problem."
Karlier. Mr. McCarthy reported that the Health Department's regional sanitarian. Charles Shepherd, had indicated a percolation test would he performed on the lot in the next few days in accord with the HZ.-Vs condition that reassurance of septic field adequacy be based on such a test.
Hut according to Mr. Hur. he will have to perform the procedure himself because Rappahannock sanitarian .lack Lockhart doesn't think a perc test is necessary. Mr. Hur said the local sanitarian had visited the lot. picked up a handful of soil, run it through his fingers, and announced, "This will perc beautifully." He said Mr. l.ockhart added that the septic fields in Rappahannock Lakes have been functioning for more than 20 wars without "a single problem."
i This assessment does not explain how fecal coliform, presumably . imm a malfunctioning septic field, contaminated the subdivision's public water system in L'Ts, leading the Health Department to order a supplemental spring located below a septic field to be disconnected from the system and the primary well dug 00 feet deeper.)
"What about the well itself?" asked Mr. Zindel.
"We did ask the Health Department to come here today and they wouldn’t do it." interjected Mr. Thorne. “They won’t have anything to do with the well.”
"Mr. Lockhart is not sticking his neck out o«-Hri>v no way, no how,” Mr. Hur confirmWl. “I think you would have to drag him here in chains."
Without the Health Department present to answer questions, the HZA members turned to the variance applicant for information on current well and septic regulations, and according to Mr. Hur, standards provide for a septic field to be as close as 50 feet to a grouted well.
“If the Health Department says this is an acceptable form of grout
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