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Clevenger
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County. Our county’s Comprehensive Plan is coming up for review and possible revision in a year or so. Although our county's population growth will hopefully never reach the scale of Culpeper County’s. Culpeper’s evolving experience with Clevenger’s Corner might provide some “lessons learned" for us.
Of all the development impacts that Clevenger’s Comer faces, none is more critical than finding a sustainable supply of water. Without sufficient water all manner of development must be curtailed. Water is also a concern of the current residents in the Clevenger's Corner area. Some fear a drawdown on their wells. It is not inconceivable that some Rappahannock County citizens might be affected by a w’ell drawdown.
Water sources in the Piedmont area are different from those in the Northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. There, about 75 percent of the water comes from the Potomac River and most of the remainder from the Patuxent and Occoquan reservoirs: all surface water. Out here, water comes from wells. The source is called groundwater
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