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By Don Audette
Special to the Rappahannock News
A First in a two part series.
With neighboring Shenandoah National Park rated the second most polluted park in the nation, residents of Rappahannock County may want to know how that air quality is affecting them.
Reports show, for instance, ozone may be harming vineyards and other plants in the county.
Shane Spitzer, the Shenandoah National Park’s specialist on air and water quality will tell how we are faring at a public forum on Saturday, April 12 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Old Sperryville Schoolhouse, formerly the Faith Mountain Company in Sperryville.
Spitzer has 10 years experience in monitoring the park’s air and water quality. He is the featured speaker in a program presented by RappFLOW and sponsored by such groups as the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection, Piedmont Environmental Council, Sperryville Gateway Project the park and others.
The atmosphere in which persons live and breathe in Rappahannock County involves wind-directed air that is either passing through the park, or is on its way to the park. Water in the county’s streams and rivers flows down from the park. Since the park monitors its air and water quality, we get the benefit of its knowledge free. Should we be concerned?
Last September, a report by the National Parks Conservation Association named the five most polluted national parks in the United States.
Based on haze, ozone and acid precipitation, first place went to the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. It was said at times to have “ozone puliation (that) exceeds that of Atlanta, Ga., and even rivals Los
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