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By Don Audette
Special to the'Rappahannock News
Development raises havoc with trees, soil, and surface water, the three natural cleansing agents of water pollution. Trees are cut down and their mitigating effect on acid rain and low-level ozone is lost. Earth is moved around and reshaped. Topsoil needed to process pollutants and nutrients is disturbed, and replacement sod or seeding requires lawn chemicals. Other soil is covered over by buildings, roads, and parking lots, resulting in polluted runoff when it rains. Streams become burdened with this polluted mixture.
As the natural lines of defense on water quality go by the board, they are replaced by man-made constraints designed to handle water pollution. For government and businesses, this takes the form of laws and regulations. For individuals in a residential subdivision, self-interest and adherence to the rules of a property owners association may be the solution.
For others, it boils down to a combination of self-interest and a sense of responsibility. Varied monitoring, detection, containment, and correction methods or devices can handle almost all pollutants. The ultimate enforcer is the threat of monetary penalties or the denial of use, e.g., foul your well, you lose your water.
Water protection
How is water protected in the 80 percent of the land within the Clevenger’s Corner Village Center Plan lying south of US 211? Currently, there is only one business, the South Wales
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