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IT APPEARS that Rappahannock County may finally get a landfill but it will be privately owned rather than on county property. Supervisor Chairman Pete Luke won approval from the rest of the members of the Board of Supervisors at their meeting Thursday, September 2, to continue his negotiations with Community Trash, low bidders on the 1977 Rappahannock trash contract.
Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Updike’s Community Trash was awarded a contract at the August Board meeting. At that time, Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis pointed out that the collected trash was the Updikes’ property and the responsibility for its disposal was also theirs. Ruth Updike agreed and told Davis that she expected Community Trash to also be given the Orange County trash contract, the bids on which were to be opened the following day, and that Community Trash would continue to use the Orange County landfill.
When the Orange bids were opened on August 9, however, a Richmond firm had underbid the Updikes by $1,600. The Orange County Board of Supervisors then voted to close their landfill to Rappahannock within 90 days.
In an effort to find a solution to the trash disposal problem and not default on their Rappahannock contract, the Updikes have been searching for property to use as a landfill in the county. Chairman Luke reported that a landowner with a suitable parcel who was willing to sell had been found.
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