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By Richard Lykes
Special to the Rappahannock News
A proposed wastewater treatment facility being considered by the Town of Washington was discussed in considerable detail at the “Friends of the Rush River” (FORush) meeting held on Saturday morning at the Rappahannock County library. Sponsored by a new grassroots citizens organization, some 30 concerned Rappahannock residents, many of them Rush River riparian landowners, met to brainstrom and strategize in preparation for a public hearing by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality that will be held on March 28 in the auditorium at Rappahannock High School.
Moderating the discussion was Monira Rifaat, Rappahannock’s representative on the regional Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District. She stressed at the outset that it was important that the group not exaggerate or be taken away with bias or emotion as they addressed the real problems of a wastewater treatment facility for the Town of Washington. “Facts are very
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