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for community water systems, says that his records indicate that the subdivision’s public water system was removed from that classification sometime before his arrival in 1980. When and why, he couldn’t say.
Mr. Eggborne promised to investigate and clear up the situation. That was late in March.
On Monday his subordinate, Joe Burner, who had apparently been handed the problem, told a Rappahannock ' News reporter that she knew more about the situation than he did.
The situation has gone beyond the problems of a landowner denied a variance because the Health Department refuses to certify his well. That’s a minor inconvenience compared to the potential problems if the development’s water supply is contaminated.
The problem has become the Health Department and its inability, or refusal, to address the Rappahannock Lakes situation.
Why can’t this state agency, charged with safeguarding the purity of the Commonwealth’s drinking water, get some answers to the questions asked about Rappahannock Lakes?
It would be understandable if it takes some time to unravel a situation which has been buried in a bureaucratic morass for at least eight years. But it appears that no one is even trying — let alone offering any solutions.
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