Tag: September 1956
Fairfax’s Tainted Water: A Battle for Leesburg’s Goose Creek
In the sleepy town of Leesburg, Virginia, a simmering dispute has been brewing over the proposed construction of a reservoir on Goose Creek. The Fairfax County authorities, in their quest for a new water source, have been facing stiff resistance from local residents. But it wasn’t the opposition that made headlines on September 7, 1956,…
