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the Board of Supervisors at this time next year.
Washington area resident Donna LaPre referred to a principle that a community “live within the limits of the watershed,” and she said that she thought that that was a good idea for Rappahannock County.
McCarthy responded that “water does get a lot of attention in the Comprehensive Plan" and he pointed out that there are static wells in Sperryville that are routinely monitored for both quality and quantity.
He asked that LaPre provide further information on the cited principle. Junk added that the Piedmont is “fairly limited in its water supply” and that those limitations “will be important in the years to come.”
LaPre also asked if building codes could be changed to permit the use of graywater for gardens. Graywater is residential wastewater of less than potable quality that comes from bathroom sinks, showers and washing machines and is generally accepted for use in irrigating non-edible landscape plants.
Jennifer Alexander noted that “the code was changed because of phosphates.”
Hampton District Commissioner A1 Henry observed that recent efforts under programs such as the Federal/State Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (that assists landowners in creating riparian buffers to renew and preserve stream quality) will have a noticeable affect and that “the stream areas are really going to look different in the next 10 to 15 years” with the buffers filtering pollutants and providing wildlife habitat.
Stonewall-Hawthorne District Supervisor Bob Anderson recalled that the Thornton and Covington Rivers were heavily polluted 35 years ago—largely with plastic milk cartons and diapers—but noted that there have been improvements in stream quality in
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