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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Town of Washington’s water system had its annual inspection in August, and according to a letter to Mayor Dean Morehouse from the Culpeper regional Health Department office, it came up short.
Inspector Joe Burner cited the system for failure to submit monthly monitoring reports, lack of a backflow prevention system, a broken automatic chlorinator, lack of a disinfection system for the spring-supplied water, and lack of required documentation for the second of the town’s two wells.
Water Authority supervisor Brad Fisher told the Town Council at its meeting on Sept. 14 that the monitoring reports are being sent directly to the Health Department’s state headquarters in Richmond because they have consistently been misplaced by the Culpeper district office, and that the documentation for the well had been sent, twice, to the district office and also apparently misplaced.
He added that backflow preventers are being installed on individual connections as work is done, and that those remaining will be installed when the new system is connected. Mr. Fisher said that some items cited, such as chlorination system being broken, will also be remedied permanently with the instal
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