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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Town Council opened bids for a new well for the water system and agreed to turn the material over to Treasurer Brad Fisher to make a recommendation.
Bids were received from Valley Drilling, Leazer Drilling, and LeHew Well Drilling, but not all seemed to bidding on the same specifications.
“I think we have to do a green sheet to reconcile the pricing,” Mayor Dean Morehouse said. “We’ll leave that up to Brad.” Mr. Fisher was out of town and unable to attend the council meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 14.
In a related matter the council learned that the spring that has been supplying most of the town’s water has been shut off. The Health Department required that the spring water be chlorinated if it is to continue to be used.
On recycling, Ray Gooch reported that about one half of the residents are participating and that the program results in enough recyclables being collected to justify getting a larger truck or going to twice a month pick-ups.
He said that about a ton of newspapers and another ton of glass and aluminum are being collected each month. He said the town should consider getting containers for households to use to separate their trash, but added that he hadn’t collected any information on the cost of such containers.
Evelyn Willis reported that the Architectural Review Board is still waiting for County Administrator John McCarthy to rewrite the historic district ordinance and is hoping to have representatives of ARBs in Winchester and Richmond “talk with us.”
On the problem of loitering at the corner Mayor Morehouse reported that two people who had been arrested for fighting in the streets at
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