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Gate will
remain open
says board
By Jan LaValley
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
After dispensing with the approval of the minutes of the last meeting and revised agenda, the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors came under fire from several residents of Chester Gap.
The citizens were at the meeting to voice opposition to the gate that had been erected across the road leading up to the headwaters of the Rappahannock River in Chester Gap. Bradley Williams spoke to the supervisors and presented them with a petition containing 330 signatures of people against the having the gate oh that road.
He further told the board that he had talked to VDOT and had been “advised by the district supervisor” that the gate was across a state road and the only reason VDOT allowed it was because the county had assured VDOT that the residents of Chester Gap wanted the gate there as a way to protect the river from pollution that has occurred there in the
t think the gate should come down,” Williams
“and the people up there feel the same way. It
lack gate on a black top road and it almost disappears at night. There was almost an accident tWie.”
Williams said the landowners who own the land adjoining the road (of which there are six) where the gate is located were never contacted about putting it up.
Gary Wallace, one of the land owners who also was in attendance, said he has no problem with the gate and wanted to know how many signatures on the petition were from property owners in the area. Three of the landowners signed the petition, three did not.
County Administrator John McCarthy said when the issue of cleaning up the headwaters had
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