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to the Occoquan Reservoir — one option being to pump this mercury-laden, don’t-eat-thefish water over the Blue Ridge to the Rappahannock for downstream diversion to an Occoquan tributary.
On Feb. 4, one person argued that Tier III intruded upon “property rights.” My view is that “property rights” do not include the right to contaminate downstream waters. I believe '* that our “property rights” include the right to have our clean water stay that way.
One of our Supervisors characterized Tier III designation as a “time bomb.” How can keeping our waters clean be a “time bomb?” Rappahannock knows about “time bombs.”
Historic waste management practices at Sperryville constituted a time bomb; it
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