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the proposed alignemt will not affect the 19th-century toll house located just west of the Child Care and Learning Center. Screening will minimize the impact on Greenfield, a Federal-period structure at the east end of the project. Both buildings have been declared eligible for registry as National Historic Landmarks.
• the project will not affect any recreational areas, national, state or local parks or forests.
• six acres of land classified as “prime farmland” will be used in the project. Because of the nature, of the expansion, the report finds “no feasible way to avoid or minimize the use of prime farmland.” If an entirely new road were built, the study notes, far more farmland would be used than under the present proposal.
• “no significant impacts are anticipated on natural, ecological, or scenic resources of national, state or local significance.”
• although noise levels at 12 ressidences will increase if the road is built, overall the report finds there will be little or no noise increase. At Rappahannock County High School and the Child Care and Learning Center, the project will result in no noise increase, according to computer-modeling projections. There are no noise-abatement measures which could decrease the noise level, but “the department [of transportation] will provide measures to reduce construction noise.”
• the project will have little or no effect on water quality or air pollution. Some wells within the project area may have to be abandoned, the report states, and others nearby may “experience some drawdown and reduction of water levels.” Any wells ordered closed will be sealed under Health Department requirements to prevent contamination of adjacent groundwater.
• a total of 1.28 acres of wetlands will be affected by the project. As with the farmland, the report notes that another alignment would affect more than the expansion of the present road. Plans will be drawn, the study says, for the replacement of the affected wetlands on new sites nearby.
Following the public hearing on the project, scheduled for Thursday, July 21 at 7 p.m. at the Rappahannock County Elementary School, comments from that meeting will be included into the final environmental impact statement.
There will also be a public information meeting on Wednesday, July 20, from 4 to 8 p.m. also at the elementary school.
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