2 Comments
User's avatar
J.R. Stallings's avatar

The Key to shutting down all Data center activity in Louisa County is Riparian Common Water Rights Doctrine in Virginia.

😊

Decrees thou shall not construct a dam upstream that impacts the existing flow of water to your neighbors and residents of the land.

Ultra deep wells are a subterranean modern dam.

Surface and underground water equally apply under Riparian water doctrine.

🧐

Regardless what the Developer, the real estate salesman promises you.

💦💦💦

It doesn’t matter how far or how much they have built. All infrastructure pertaining to obtaining your legacy water supply above and below the surface has to go.

Whatever facilities, that were installed in error, or ignorance of Riparian water rights doctrine.

Must be removed, torn down and rendered inert.

A Story a proverb of the Cattle Farmer and the Stranger from out of town.

I asked a longtime cattleman in Spotsylvania County, if a new neighbor purchased land upstream from your property.

And they decided to build a dam on your cattle stream so they could build a pond.

What would you think of that?

Oh this old fella got agitated.

No, No, they can’t do that. Just because someone paid a lot of money for land upstream from me. Does not give them the right to impact the flow of my stream I have used and shared with my neighbors for years.

It doesn’t matter how much they spent building that dam. At their expense the whole things is torn out. Restoring water flow to my stream.

Expand full comment
Vicki Schaeffer's avatar

The person commenting about rural character is right. The rural crescent, set up in Prince William over 25 years ago to protect the rural areas and slow urban growth, is long gone now, by boards looking to line their pockets with campaign donations.

Expand full comment