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THE hearing had begun with Supervisor Luke giving the history of the trash problem in Rappahannock that led to the Updikes seeking a landfill site in the county.
Community Trash was apparent low bidder for the 1977 Rappahannock trash contract, and was awarded the contract at the August Board of Supervisors meeting. The bids from the Updikes were at a 12-month cost of $33,616 if the trash company had to find its own disposal site and a higher bid of $43,616 if the county provided the landfill site. Mrs. Updike said at the time the bids were opened that they were expecting to continue to have access to the Orange County landfill for disposing the Rappahannock trash. But when the Orange County bids were opened a few days after the Updikes were awarded the Rappahannock trash contract, they were underbid. Luke explained that the Orange County Supervisors have now given Rappahannock notice that use of the Orange County landfill must be stopped in 90 days.
Luke related that both the Rappahannock Supervisors and Planning Commission have been trying to locate a site for a landfill within the county since late 1975 with no success. “Where there is suitable land there were no sellers,” he related. The “real dilemma” before the Supervisors had *- been whether to go with a private landfill, dependent on a willing
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