Mathews supervisors Janine Burns and Jack White had a polite but forceful disagreement during Tuesday night’s board meeting as White sought to again delay a resolution on water quality that Burns first proposed in October 2014.

In the end, the board voted 3-2 calling for limiting the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in order to protect coastal aquifers.

Burns said that, while she doesn’t believe there’s going to be fracking in Mathews County in the foreseeable future, fracking leases have been signed in other counties on the Middle Peninsula that could pose risks for Mathews.

Fracking companies are only required to carry $25,000 in insurance to cover such risks, she said, and that insurance is only for items related to the fracking operation itself and not for any damage that might be done by the companies to a locality’s water supply.

The impetus for the resolution is not to try to stop fracking, said Burns, but to make sure that there are measures...