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Septic regulations may force abandonment of some private wells
The problem at Rappahannock Lakes involves more than just owners of unimproved lots who will need — but won’t be able to get — a Health Department permit for a private well to serve a new residence as of Sept. 15.
Of the 28 residences formerly served by the community water system, 16 no\£ apparently rely on private wells. Since the Health Department has no authority to regulate private wells until Sept. 15, those wells were installed without agency oversight.
At the same time, Health Department standards require a minimum distance of 100 feet between a w;ell and septic field - even across property lines. But “where or how” private wells were installed was regulated only when the well and septic field went in at the same time, Mr. McCarthy explained, pronouncing the Health Department’s rules “a quagmire” and noting that the agency was given authority two years ago by the General Assembly to regulate private wells but only recently promulgated the standards necessary to do so.
With the small lot sizes at Rappahannock Lakes, a land owner could get a permit for a septic field that
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