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By Don Audette
Special to the Rappahannock News
If one had to find 600,000 gallons of water per day to support a planned community of about 4,100 people, such as is envisioned in the Clevenger’s Comer Village Center Plan in Culpeper County, how would one do it? Hire a dowser? Dig a trench with a baekhoe, flood it with water, and assume if it drains quickly there must be water down below? Look at geologic maps for the location of where different types of rock come together? Examine satellite photos for lines on the earth indicating bedrock fractures?
In mid-January 1981, the Tbwn of Washington faced just such a problem, only on a much smaller scale, as the town then had only 240 residents.
Three springs on Jenkins Mountain, that fed Washington’s reservoir, had run dry and the town’s supplemental well, 66-feet deep, was also going
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