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Weather was news
As always in a rural agricultural community, the weather was news 'luring 198K. Although a wet spring held promise for sufficient moisture for the farmers, by summer that hope had evaporated along with the rain.
For two months the county went without appreciable moisture, and a bountiful first cutting of hay was followed by fields bare of anything but dried stubble.
With late summer, however, the rains returned to salvage part of the fall harvest, although many farmers reported reduced yields. The county’s orchards were hit hard, with the fruit of small size.
Ground water protection
Although legislators and planners agree that little is known about the ground water supplies of Piedmont Virginia, there is a consensus that more studies need to be done. Questions begging for answers include, “How much water is there?,” “Where does it come from, and where does it go?," “How much of it is polluted?,” and "What will be the effects of development on the ground water supply?”
The problem came home to Rappahannock County when the Health Department revoked the permit for the largely makeshift, poorly maintained community water system which served homeowners in Rappahannock Lakes, a subdivision near Amissville which predates the county's zoning ordinances.
The department ruled that existing wells and septic system* will have priority, which may mean that some of the subdivision’s small,
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