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Time for answers This week, May 2 through 8, has been designated by President Reagan and the Congress as National Drinking Water Week. It is an appropriate time to remember the importance^of that fragile and too often forgotten resource. There is nothing more necessary to our existence than pure drinking water. Indeed, life depends on it. Unfortunately, its necessity is usually overlooked until it’s too late. This week brought good and bad news on the groundwater front for the county’s residents. The good news was the announcement that a grant has been approved for the study of wells and groundwater resources near the landfill site in Jackson District. The bad news is the lack of progress by the Health Department in giving the county answers about the status of the water system in the Rappahannock Lakes subdivision.' Jack Lockhart, the county’s sanitarian, continues to refuse to test private wells in the development, maintaining that it is served by a public water system. Hugh Eggborne, the department’s supervising engineer
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