Firing the latest salvo in the battle over Louisa County’s future public water supply, the Monacan Indian Nation asked the Louisa and Fluvanna county boards of supervisors to hire a third party to investigate the actions of the James River Water Authority.
The tribe’s Dec. 18 letter to Louisa supervisors Chairman Toni Williams (Jackson district) and John Sheridan, his counterpart in Fluvanna, says that the authority cannot be trusted to get to the bottom of alleged wrongdoing by its cultural resources subcontractor, Circa Cultural Resource Management LLC.
“Documents have now revealed that JRWA itself was fully aware of some of Circa’s practices and paid for them knowingly, including Circa’s use of untrained, unqualified, unsupervised construction workers to conduct sensitive archaeological testing instead of archaeology field technicians,” wrote the Monacans’ attorney, Marion Werkheiser.
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