Evening star., 1941-07-17
Fairfax Warned
Rapid Growth
Peri|s Health
Survey Advised to
Construct Water and
Sewer Systems
Special Dispatch to The Star.

accessible to washington.
DR.. G. R. Carpenter, county med
ical director, in making the recon-
mendation, warned that the prob
lens threaten the public health and
welfare of the county's established
standards of living.
He urged the supervisors to take
into consideration the need for water
and ssewer systems in four sections;
provision for the collection and dis
posal of garbage, and provision for
disqualification facilities.
Areas Needing New Facilities.
Under water and sewerage he list
ed the four areas where added facil-
tiles are urgently needed: Groveton,
Belle Haven and New Alexandria
sections; the Falls Church. Baileys
Cross Roads and Annandale Sec
tions: the area west of Falls Church
and Mclean, and the town of Vien-
ma and surrounding area.
For the first of the areas DR.. Car
penter's report pointed to the fact
the rapid expansion of population
makes it impossible to obtain salts
factory sewage disposal facilities
and water supplies for many of the
homes-a matter that can only be
corrected by sewer system. An
other factor cited is the need for
adequate fire protection which, in
turn. will depend upon the available
ity of a central water and distribu-
ton system.
The second area was described as
the most active in building because
of the fact it is so accessible to
Washington because of three or four
main highways. While Falls Church
now has both water and sewer Sys-
TENS, the report stated, they are not
adequate to provide for the section
around the town, especially in view
of the fact the municipal system
empties into the Arlington County
lines.
Disposal Plant Problems.
It was recommended that the
logical location for a sewage disposal
plant for this section is on Holmes
Run below the reservoir. However,
because this area has a natural
drainage toward the Alexandria and
Arlington watersheds, it is pointed
out no such system can be set up
unless Alexandria will pipe its water
from the reservoir to the city.
With a governmental agency al
ready having selected a site to erect
Office buildings scheduled to accom-
modate 5000 employees west of Falls
Church, it was pointed out this area
now has no water or sewer facilities.
Although the situation in Vienna
and its adjacent area is not so seri-
GUS at this time, DR.. Carpenter S
report declared Vienna is one OF
only two incorporated municipali-
ties in Virginia that do now provide
either one or both of such services.
Yet, the report stated, any system
for this section can be tied in with
another sanitary district, and be
the easiest problem of all to solve.
The report stressed the fact the
county is badly handicapped in work.
ing out solution to the problems
since it does not have the funds,
or an established engineering de-
partment to make the necessary
technical survey of the situation.
Federal Aid Is Urged.
Recommendation was made that
steps be taken to obtain outside as
sistance in drafting needs prepara-
tory to filing a formal application
for Federal aid under the Lanham
Act.
Concluding his recommendations
with respect to water and sewer
extension, DR.. Carpenter said:
In these exciting times We can
best be true by being honest and
admitting that the job that now
confronts us is too big for us alone.
We need help and we must get it
from an external source, else all the
previous standards of the county
that have been built up will fall
so quickly that we shall become the
dirty backyard of Washington,
Arlington and Alexandria"
With respect to the collection and
disposal of garbage, the report
declared the county has no agency
to carry out this program in salts
factory manner-a problem that is
becoming more acute every day. AS
a solution it was suggested study
should be made of population
trends so incinerators can be
located in logical sections.
The disclosure was also made
that the county, with a population
in excess of 10000, has no hospital
available for contagious diseases
occurring in marginal or INDECENT
families, and it is becoming more
and more difficult to obtain hospital
beds for non-contagious cases.
Committee Appointed.
Suggestion was made that in the
near future the county arrange to
contribute to some nearby hospital
in which such cases could be cared
lOl az a lilllllIllulu COSJ W lllc CUuILy,
and where contagious cases can be
cared for when the necessity arises.
A committee, including Chairman
G. Wallace Carper of the Board of
Supervisors, Dr. Carpenter and Miss
Winona Rorbye, superintendent of
public welfare, was named to study
the hospital proposal, and the
sanitary questions were referred to
the Planning Commission to be
taken up with State engineers for
population survey.
T.e board rejected all bids sub
mitted for proposed additions to the
courthouse building since none came
within available funds. For con-
structing both wings on the build
ing, the low bid was 500, 900, and for
one wing to house the present clerks
office the low bid was $62,750., 1t
was decided to hold the matter over
until sufficient funds are on hand
T. j. Stockton of Burke was re-
appointed a member of the County
Planning Commission for a five-year
term, and Supervisor John T..
BIncoe was reappointed to the