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Sewer blockage
The Culpeper County Planning Commission voted
against it; elected and appointed officials in
jurisdictions surrounding it have spoken in opposition to it; and environmentalists in general and people living nearby fear they will lose something they cherish if it comes here.
What they are talking about is the massive development proposed for rural, still-isolated Clevengers Corner, which in effect would drop a large population center on the countryside, far from anything else, like services.
What has kept the 766-home, 389,000 square feet of commercial enterprise from happening so far is that wastewater (sewage) treatment, that great leveler of ambitious projects in the wrong place, continues to be a problem. Maybe requiring that we not be allowed to foul our own nests will be the project’s final undoing.
With the Rappahannock River so close, county offi- . cials and planners have every right to be concerned about sewage, especially a lot of it. Relying on an experimental wastewater treatment plant in an area so environmentally sensitive is risky — no, it’s idiotic.
Running a close second is the congestion that nearly 8,000 more vehicle trips a day will cause. The intersection of U.S. 211 and Warrenton’s Broadview Avenue is already overloaded, to say nothing of the bypass itself. '
Because of Fauquier’s embattled Comprehensive Plan and Rappahannock’s 25-acre zoning, the massive development pushing out from Northern Virginia has been channeled into northern Culpeper.
Should this region be the next place to suffer suburban sprawl? We think not, but what happens next is up to the Culpeper supervisors.
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