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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
About 15 adults and 12 children took part in the water monitoring workshop held Saturday in the Extension office and on site on the south fork of the Thornton River near Oldway Art Village.
Jay Gillium in his capacity as a vice president of the Virginia Isaac Walton League conducted the workshop ably assisted by graduate students from George Mason University.
Mr. Gillium, who said he was a gardener, became alarmed when a church camp applied for a permit to discharge 100,000 gallons per day of heated sewage into a stream one-fourth of a mile from where he swam and fished near Goshen Pass.
He said he protested, "I’ve got a clean stream here,” but he was asked "How do you know?"
"The default setting is dirty, if you don’t know," he said. So he became involved in learning how to tell if a stream is clean or dirty. "If you can’t prove that a stream is clean, it can be polluted by permit," he said.
He said he attended several meetings and began to monitor his creek and eventually he and his neighbors did succeed in keeping the sewer system from discharging into the stream, not because of the stream's cleanliness but because there was a "glitch” in the application. It turned out not to be a camp, but a conference center that was proposed, he said.
He said his efforts succeeded in part because his wife is "potentially the meanest lawyer in the valley.” He said he became trained in testing the stream and now monitors it four times a year. "It almost always comes up excellent," he said. i
Mr. Gillium said the General
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