What about Broad Run Farms?

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors is scheduled tomorrow to consider whether to include here provisions of the Chesapeade Bay Preservation Act.
The act appears wise, but the topic of clean water brings to mind that last I heard the Environmental Protection Agency was supposed to be working to clean up Broad Run Farms, where the Hidden Lane Landfill was leaking toxic waste into that community's water wells.
Broad Run Farms is one of the earliest communities built in eastern Loudoun. It's the only development that was not built as a planned residential community. Instead, the landowner simply sold off lots to families who built their own homes and dug their own wells for water.
Unfortunately, the Hidden Lane Landfill, which lies on the east side of Broad Run Farms and the west side of the CountrySide homeowners association, began some time ago to leak toxic waste into many of the private wells in Broad Run Farms. (The CountrySide development was arranged at the outset to be served by the pipes of what is now Loudoun Water.)
By February of last year, the county and EPA were testing wells in Broad Run Farms and finding many of them to be contaminated. Last I heard, the EPA was working to clean up Broad Run Farms, located where Broad Run flows into the Potomac River, and on into the Chesapeake Bay. The Broad Run Farms community is generally the county's first location to flood during heavy rains, so it appears that Broad Run Farms might itself pose great danger to the preservation of the Chesapeake Bay, let alone the Loudoun County residents who live there.
While we are thinking about preserving the Chesapeake Bay, our Loudoun County supervisors should be thinking first about Broad Run Farms, which, as far as I know, still contains a number of toxic wells.

-- martin casey