YORK — A second large housing development under construction in upper York County recently received a stop work order from the county’s Department of Public Works after an inspection found violations of the project’s stormwater management plan.

On Sept. 11, the department’s chief of operations, Travis Rhodes, issued a directive to Hampton-based developer Harrison & Lear Inc. to stop all land disturbance activity at Waller Mill Heights, a planned 326-home community in York County near Williamsburg. An Aug. 29 inspection identified 45 instances of noncompliance with the stormwater management plan.

While home construction and sitework have stopped, Harrison & Lear and contractor Chesapeake Bay Contractors Inc. of Virginia Beach are actively correcting the problems.

“The developer is workin

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