ZION CROSSROADS — Despite 50 people speaking in opposition, the James River Water Authority will submit an application with a Monacan Indian Nation heritage site as the preferred location for a proposed raw water intake and pump station in Fluvanna County.
The authority board was presented with alternatives at its February meeting — which included 12 alternative project combinations, five alternative water sources and a no-action scenario — and voted Wednesday to submit the controversial site as its preferred option with application materials to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The proposed and recommended site for the intake and pump station is near Point of Fork at the confluence of the Rivanna and James Rivers, which played a role in the Revolutionary War and also is known as Rassawek, the historic capital of the Monacan Indian Nation. Members of the nation have opposed the station, and they and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources have said that an archaeologist conducting the initial site review for the station was unqualified.
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