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Resident urges explicit groundwater protections in Technology Overlay District
Summary
During citizen comment, Reverend Lisa Sykes asked the commission to require that all water and reused water in the proposed Technology Overlay District come from the county public water system, to ban new industrial groundwater extraction (including for data centers), and to define 'reuse' so groundwater pumping cannot be repurposed; commissioners acknowledged her remarks.
Reverend Lisa Sykes, a Goochland County resident, urged the Planning Commission on Nov. 20 to tighten language in the draft Technology Overlay District (TOD) ordinance so it cannot be used to permit new groundwater withdrawals for industrial uses.
Sykes said the current draft requires uses in the TOD to connect to public water and sewer and allows some on‑site reuse and treatment, but she…
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