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Letter To Editor
To the Editor: A big hand to DLMjr, whose Letter to the Editor, printed in your issue of March 14, really laid it on the line regarding the wide extent of public dumping of trash and garbage along the highways and roads and in the streams of otherwise lovely Rappahannock County. Since moving to the county last November, I have been repeatedly sickened by the disregard shown the law against dumping on public lands and private properties. In taking frequent walks along the roads out of Sperryville, I see more tin cans, beer bottles and other trash and garbage dumped here and there than I saw on country walks in several other states during recent years. DLMjr did well to cite the originally beautiful Thornton River as it flows through Sperryville as an outstanding eyesore because of its use as a common dumping ground. I’ve heard the excuse offered that Sperryville, being an unincorporated village, has never arranged for a community dumping ground and garbage collection (as has incorporated Washington). Hence many of the citizens of Sperryville seem to suffer little or no qualms of conscience in contributing regularly to the unsightliness of the river. Personally, I am ready to join with other interested citizens of the county in insisting that our officers of the law rigidly enforce the State law against dumping of trash and garbage. And in the1 case of Sperryville’s need of a common dumping ground, I it am readystQ.iWor-k witDyOthen I cjtj?ens_of the village ancfits environs In trying to find a solution of its problem of disposal of trash and garbage. Surely, something can be done about this need as has been commendably done about Sperryville’s need of equipment to combat fires. Thankfully, fires seldom break out in or around Sperryville. But the dumping of trash and garbage in the Thornton River and elsewhere takes place daily in the picturesque village of Sperryville.
Clarence Wagener
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