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By Mary Beth Martin
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The dusting of snow and a few sprinkles of rain recently did nothing to ease the drought that has gripped Rappahannock and the rest of Virginia for the past six months. First pond levels dropped while streams shrank to a trickle or disappeared completely; now residential wells are starting to fail.
“It’s nerve racking. The last thing I want to do is have my well go dry,” Thomas Mullany of Flint Hill complained. His well went dry and then slowly came back. Meanwhile, he said, the family of four stopped using the well and instead trucked water from town and washed their laundry in Warren ton or Front Royal. The well is working again, but the family rations baths and still does their laundry elsewhere.
The county Health Department issued permits for residential replacement wells at a considerably higher rate in 1998 than in 1997,
96.6%