The state has offered to buy filtration systems for 22 homeowners’ wells in the Broad Run Farms subdivision near CountrySide that are contaminated with a toxic chemical used to degrease metal.
During Monday night’s board of supervisors Public Safety Committee meeting at the government center, Department of Environmental Quality representatives Richard C. Doucette and John Bowden said it is doubtful they will be able to reimburse one woman who already paid the $4,000 for a filtration system to protect her home’s water. Homeowners who have not already purchased systems will get some assistance, they indicated.
Not that it’s any of our business (but how much of this blog is, really?), it seems to us, the DEQ could easily find a way to offer the very same assistance to each home owner, including the woman who has already taken steps to protect her home’s health. Whether the assistance is compatile with her $4,000 filter should be for her to decide. Otherwise, isn’t the DEQ merely paying people off for having remained exposed? Surely this can’t be the policy DEQ is trying to promote…
can it?
Read more in Leesburg Today (Loudoun County, VA)
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