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“You wouldn’t object to it being in some other section of the county?” ashed Crigler. “I object to it being next to my house,” Mrs. Helmer replied, “but if it was the very best site available, I guess I’d have to go along with it.” But she added she was afraid her water supply would be contaminated by the site in question.
Reginald Burroughs, who owns a 155-acre farm a mile away, “as the crow flies,” also objected. “I don’t know if it would be close enough to hurt, but it wouldn’t help my land’s value, that’s for sure.”
Mrs. Jewell McGarrity, who lives a half-mile from the site, was “very seriously opposed.” She was “quite positive” the landfill would be detrimental to her property value, and she feared what it would do to springs on her land.
GREGORY MONAHAN, who lives within site of the proposed landfill, said he was afraid it would contaminate a pond his family uses for swimming. He showed photographs of rainy weather drainage areas, which he said would carry landfill pollution onto his property.
“We came to Rappahannock from D.C. because it is country, and having what amounts to an industrial site there, with trucks, trash, noise, and so forth, would definitely affect the value of the property,” said Monahan. He also said he didn’t think there had been enough information about how the
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