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Dr. Woodard said that the residents who participated in the testing program will receive a followup questionaire which will survey what action, if any, has been taken to remedy problems discovered by the sampling.
Dr. Ross emphasized that the testing program is not the answer to all problems with water supplies. “This is not an end, but a means to an end. It might suggest additional tests and types of treatment” to address individual problems.
The next phase of the program is a smaller sample of water supplies which will be tested for pesticide contamination.
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The system requires that every public road bear a name instead of the route numbers presently in use. In most cases, the fire and rescue association has recommended that roads be designated with their traditional names. But each house must be numbered, and room must be left for houses that may be built in the future, Mr. McCarthy explained. That involves a complicated mathematical plot of each section of every road in the county, assigning blocks and numbers to each section which allow for future growth.
The naming and numbering of the roads to accomodate the system, Mr. McCarthy said, has been the major task facing every rural area installing the 9-1-1 system. In places like Rappahannock, “it is a very urban concept in a very rural area. ”
Mr. McCarthy estimated that the installation of the “E-9-1-1” system, if the surcharge is approved, will not be started for two or three years. If it is done sooner, he explained, it will require that the county use money from its general revenue fund, which would then be replaced as the surcharge revenue comes in.
Given the current precarious state of the Commonwealth’s finances, and indications from Richmond that state aid for local governments may be cut further, “we may not have the money to do that,” Mr. McCarthy said. To take that amount of money from the general fund’s cushion, the county administrator said, could create “a cash flow problem . . . we’ve got to plan very carefully.
“I’m always in favor,” Mr. McCarthy added, “of pushing the implementation back until the upfront money is there.”
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