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Existing wells
given priority
at Rapp. Lakes
Health ruling may
slow development
By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock N*w« Staff Writer
“Fir»t come, first serve” will be the rule for Rappahannock Lakes when the state's private water supply regulations finally become effective.
According to regional sanitarian manager Charles Shepherd, that means owners of unimproved lots in the subdivision —which was recorded in the late 1950s prior to enactment of Rappahannock’s zoning laws —may be unable to get septic field or well permits from the Health Department if their proposed facilities don’t meet minimum separation distances from existing private water supplies and sewage disposal systems on neighboring parcels. “What exists there now' has priority,” said Mr. Shepherd in a telephone interview.
Acting under authority conferred by the General Assembly in March 1987, the State Board of Health was scheduled in September of that same year to adopt regulations pertaining to private water supplies. Local Health Department offices have been expectSee
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