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board on the opening of the schools amid continued construction. Heating and air conditioning work at the elementary school will be completed over the fall. Chappell assured the board “there is no problem with safety” and they are maintaining as much distance between the kids and construction as possible.
Security measures have been put into place to ensure the safety of students. All workers have to wear numbered badges and sign in with their name and address, and the worker’s are undergoing background checks. Additionally, children are being told to use the buddy system while going around the school.
These measures are not due to any actual threat or known risk to students.
“We feel that they’re safe, but we’re just taking precautions,” explained Chappell.
Both McCarthy and Wakefield Supervisor Roger Welch expressed public thanks to Chappell for his efforts with the ongoing school construction, with McCarthy sympathizing “Dr. Chappell has had the summer from hell.”
Contracts for construction on a new gymnasium and modular bandroom were previously held up pending research into money saving alternatives. It is now anticipated they will go forward with the same contractor that has been working on the elementary school roof and air conditioning upgrades over the summer.
Hazel River protection
There is a renewed effort afoot in, Culpeper to give the Hazel River a Tier III waterway designation with the state Department of Environmental Quality. The three-tiered system is an EPA mandate carried out by the diverse appropriate agencies within the separate states.
At present, Tier III status would only prohibit additional point sources of pollution, such as a wastewater treatment facility. McCarthy said'that four to five years ago the idea met with stiff opposition, especially in Culpeper.
But proponents renewed their proposal and the several month process will begin in earnest this October.
According to McCarthy, the political mood has changed in Culpeper, and their Board of Supervisors may be more receptive now.
Board Chairman Pete Estes noted that this designation would mean neither Rappahannock nor Culpeper could put a wastewater treatment plant on the Hazel, and this would impact potential development at Longlea. Located about a mile inside Culpeper County along Route 522, the former Longlea estate, now belonging to the Catholic group Opus Dei, has recently been considered for large scale residential development.
Neither endorsing nor discouraging the Culpeper based proposal, McCarthy offered that one reason to be hesitant about Tier III status is it might be the “camel’s nose under the tent”.
“This is what the regulations say now, but who knows what they may be changed to in the future,” said McCarthy.
On the other hand, he continued, the county has to meet the requirements of the state’s Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act.
So anything we do that improves the quality of headwaters makes compliance easier.
Local attorney Bob Weinberg spoke in favor of Tier III status: “As one of the many
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