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But maybe just as important, these new citizen activists have won a grant project which will bring a graduate student to the county for 10 weeks to conduct a groundwater study. In Rappahannock, as in most of Virginia, we have no information on the state of this resource on which we all depend for drinking water. ' Particularly in the vicinity of old landfills — essentially unlined holes in the ground — information is critical. It won’t come from the Health Department; the county’s experience in Rappahannock Lakes has shown that answers are next to impossible to get from that bureaucratic agency.
Fortunately, the Jackson District Citizens Committee’s grant project will close this data gap.
The summer intern from Washington and Lee University will also do an analysis of recycling possibilities for Rappahannock. There has been much talk lately about recycling. Perhaps this study will begin to translate the talk into action, just in time for the establishment of a recycling center at the new county landfill.
In Jackson District, the typical NIMBY (“Not-in-myback-vard”) crusade became something much more. And we certainly encourage these new and very effective environmental activists to continue their work. But even should they disband, for their achievements to date in environmental protection the members of the Jackson I iistrict Citizens Committee, and Lorraine Early in particular, deserve credit and the thanks of not just their neighbors in Amissville, but from the residents of all of Rappahannock County.
They have proved that, in the continuing war to protect the fragile resource which is our groundwater, the loss of a battle does not mean surrender. They have won a victory for all the county’s residents.
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