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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Local officials in Rappahannock County are looking over the border into Fauquier to see the outcome of a suit filed last month in response to that county’s denial of a 400-unit subdivision.
In December, Fauquier’s Board of Supervisors rejected the special exception permit sought by Morgan E. Earnest and Marshall Associates for the 500-acre subdivision in the Marshall service district. The three-member majority voting against the Salem project cited specific concerns with adequacy of water supply for the private wells intended to serve the 400 households.
The developers produced experts — hydrogeologists from Converse Environmental East — who contended that high-yield wells would produce plenty of water for the subdivision without depleting the area’s ground water reserves. But opponents and the State Water Control Board found the consultants’ studies flawed.
The complaint filed by the Northern Virginia law firm of Hazel, Thomas, Fiske, Beckhorn and Hanes contends the Converse study demonstrated “the existence of adequate water to serve the proposed development and [that] the use of such water would not adversely affect the surrounding properties.”
In addition, the suit invokes the 1964 Civil Rights
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