Three decades ago, the discolored water coming out of wells along Wolf Trap turned into a headache for Dominion Virginia Power.
And though homes near the site are now hooked into a public water system — at Dominion's expense — and though the company spent millions more to clean up the site, it is still dealing with what chemists found when they asked why a York County resident's drinking water was green: a rare metal called vanadium.
"This is a continuing responsibility," said Cathy C. Taylor, a senior environmental officer at Dominion.
Which is why the front of Chisman Creek Park is torn up, as crews from Michigan-based DeWind One Pass Trenching swelter in the unfamiliar Virginia heat as they install yet another line of drainage pipes to divert groundwater into the Hampton Roads Sanitation District treatment plant instead of Chisman Creek and, eventually, the Chesapeake Bay.
