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tive would be to hire someone to con- ! tact well drillers and locate on maps what wells they had drilled and what flows they found and at what depth.

Mr. Harris said that data would not be very useful, since most such wells are for individual houses or businesses, and water available in . fracture zones would be suitable for! villages.

Mr. Harris suggested Rappahannock could follow the lead of Fauquier County and require large developers to prove that they would not require water needed by existing development in the county.

He said underground water comes either from long term storage or the seeping of rainwater into the ground. He said if more is taken out than is coming in, that is “mining groundwater” and can lead to streams drying up.

The issue of what to do next was left unresolved.

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