Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
University Site

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egates' Education Committee
killed House Bill 678 which
would have established the
George Mason College of the
University of Virginia on the
Bowman site near Herndon,
as approved by the Univer-
sity Of Virginia Board of Wis
itors. People of this area
should be, concerned.
Representatives of various
locales and governing bodies
were there in witness to their
approval of the Bowman site
but Fairfax's own chairman
Of County Supervisors was
there to oppose.
1t was brought out by the
opposition that the school
would be too distant to serve
the needs of the area. but the
supplemental second National
Airport at Chantilly Is even
further than the college site
and / am sure the Federal
Government would not spend
millions on an installation
that is inaccessible.
Seeds of doubt were Sown
as to whether the governing
bodies concerned would pay
one-third of the operational
cost if the college were estab-
lished on the Bowman free
gift site, a site that will not
be paid for by the taxpayer.
Mrs. Leone Buchholtz,
member Of the Arlington
County Board, and Delegate
Harrison Mann also appeared
in opposition and the people
of this area should know that
we might have had a college
in the planning stage on the
Bowman tract to serve all
Northern Virginia If it had
not been for this group that
appeared to oppose.
Whose Judgment should be
followed in establishing the
branch Of the University of
Virginia? Harrison Mann?
Anne wilkins? Mrs. Buch-
holtz? Or the governing body
Of the University of Virginia?
Shirley G. HOofnagle.
Herndon has all it takes
for the University of Virginia
branch, including a proper
sewer with no cost to the
taxpayer. Some folks look a
gift horse in his mouth so
much they can't tell it from
his tail. Ecila Logan.
Fnote in your February rs
issue a letter by John D.
Nurge in regard to the pro-
posed site for the Northern
Branch of the University of
Virginia. I wish to set the
record straight. not only in
the interest Of truth, but
because such statements
definitely reflect on the
ability of the engineers who
have been retained as con-
sultants in the preparation
of plans for the future de-
velopment Of this 7,000-acre
Bowman tract. Any state
ment that it is or ever has
been the expectation to serve
"a city Of 10000" with the
proposed 100000 sewage
disposal plant is absolutely
false.
The sole object Of the con-
struction of this disposal
plant was to serve the uni
versity and homes Of the
faculty. AS designed and APP
proved by the Virginia Water
Control Board and the Vir-
ginia State Health DEPART
ment, it will take care Of 5000
day students and 300 resi-
dences. Whenever, and If in
the future, additional resi-
dental areas are developed,
entirely new disposal plants
on entirely different water
sheds will be constructed.
To say that the filtered.
chlorinated and aerated ef-
fluent from a well designed
disposal plant would pollute
the Potomac water is also
incorrect. The effluent so
treated would be purer than
the natural water flowing
into the Potomac. Neither
the Water Control Board nor
the State Health Department
would have approved the To-
cation and design and load
Of the proposed disposal
plant If 1t would endanger
public health m any way.
The proposed master plan
for the future development
Of this 1000 acre property
has been shown and dis
cussed with the Fairfax
County Planning Commits
sion and other interested
officials in the Fairfax Coun-
ty area. This plan shows
some 1900 acres Of as beau
tifully wooded land as there
IN In Northern Virginia alloa