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HIGHWAY vandals last year cost taxpayers in the Virginia Highway Department’s Culpeper District a total of $203,969.62, according to C. O. Leigh, the department’s maintenance engineer.
In the Piedmont Counties of Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William and Rappahannock, Leigh said, the total .cost of vandalism amounted to $54,179,96. Total damage throughout the state amounted to $539,606.
Leigh said vandals used guns, paint, thrown bottles and political stickers to deface road signs.
But, Leigh said, a gun shot or an unauthorized paint job or a political sticker were not the only methods of damaging signs. He said some vandals corn-' bined littering and vandalism by hurling beverage cans and bottles at signs.
Theft of road signs also was a problem, Leigh said. While a defaced sign sometimes can be repaired, a stolen one can’t. And where some signs have been stolen a hazard to motorists has resulted.
Leigh said sign replacement costs may vary from $12 to replace a stop sign to as much as $1,000 to remove and replace a 10 x 20 foot sign with mileages for three communities. These are one-of-a-kind, custom built signs.
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