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No well permits?
But the question of what happens with future development proposals in Rappahannock Lakes remains unsettled.
In 1987, reflecting an upsurge in concern over groundwater, the General Assembly passed legislation that requires the Health Department to issue permits for all private drinking water wells. It has taken a year and a half to get regulations written for the new authority, but beginning this Sept. 15, Virginians must have a permit for a private well.
However, owners of unimproved lots in Rapp nnock Lakes won’t be able to get pei.nits for private wells because that subdivision has a public water system, Mr. Shepherd told the BZA on Friday, taking that position despite the fact that the system today is public only on paper.
The standard monitoring of community water systems has not been done for Rappahannock Lakes “since somewhere about 1980,” said Joe Burner from the Division of Water Quality, adding “there was much confusion regarding the appropriateness of considering this a public water supply in the beginning . . . The system appears to have been left to go in its own.” He told the BZA that the records show no annual site visits to inspect the system itself.
According to Mr. Burner, the monthly samples, required for community systems with more than 15
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