it had 27 or 2» connections.

it had 27 or 2» connections. When the system failed for a sixweek stretch between Thanksgiving and January, and he was forced to haul water for his family from a gas station at Clevenger’s Corner, “I finally got disgusted,” Mr. Dye said. A new well drilled on his property produced 27 gallons a minute and as a “humanitarian act,” Mr. Dye allowed other property owners to connect to this private water source. The public system was “already ruptured” so he installed cutoff valves and hooked seven households on his side of the subdivision onto his well, he told the BZA. Other property owners have dug private wells of their own, and five houses remain connected to what was the well for the community system, he said. “At a gallon and a half a minute . . . you can pump that well dry in about five hours.” Mr. Dye reported he alone maintains both systems now, but that in light of the leaky lines and other work required on the former community system, he’s trying to make its users assume responsibilty. Officially, it was turned over to the Rappahannock Lakes Homeowners Association for maintenance by Dr. Williams after the connections

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