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Editorial
South Wales project
could doom river
The history of the South Wales development, 2,500 houses on 2,518 acres near Jeffersonton, is a lesson for planners everywhere.
No one — except the developers — doubts that the project will stick out like a sore thumb in that region, where farmers are far more prevalent than tennis players. No one can say for sure what the impact on the Rappahannock River will be, but we’re inclined to think it will be tremendous and tragic. No one doubts that the biggest losers will be Culpeper County taxpayers, saddled with paying for the new residents’ services.
Yet the project has sailed along, passed from planning commission to supervisors to the court system, where it is presently tied up.
As part of the Virginia Water Control Board’s review of the project’s huge sewage treatment plant, it will hold a public hearing on the discharge permit at 7 p.m. on June 5 in the auditorium of Culpeper County High School.
In case you haven’t heard, the discharge permit would allow almost a million gallons of treated sewage to be dumped into the pristine Rappahannock River da//i/.
If a treatment plant of that size ever goes into operation on the river, it will be a dark day for anyone who lives near the river, or who has ever loved it.
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