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be monitored locally...I, u a citizen, think this (grant proposal) is superfluous,' expensive, not needed...I suggest you look with askance at this,” he advised the Commissioners.
LeGarde maintained that the proposal for state supervised water testing “projects the employment of engineers who come at the same rate as doctors for a job that can be done by a sanitarian who is paid less than a teacher.” ,/
He added that the same' work could be done by the addition of four technicians to the combined health department staff of the five counties in the Planning District.
Fauquier representative Richard McNear said that local inspection of water systems would result in better and faster compliance with state regulations.
“A fraction of that (grant) money could be used to equip your local health department to do the same job more efficiently,” agreed LeGarde.
The commissioners voted unanimously to forward their objections of the program to Richmond on the grounds that the proposal for state inspection would be a duplication of effort, inefficient, and could be better implemented under local control.
Planning District Director John Cappelle asked the commissioners for authorization of a new, fulltime staff person to work with localities on litter control and the development of a solid waste management program. He added that the position would be funded entirely through the Litter Control Act passed last year.
Fauquier representative Stevenson Mcllvaine doubted if litter control in the planning district’s five counties would be improved by the addition of another PD 9 staff position. “What we need is legislation to combat our serious litter problem. We need to be able to hit people who violate litter law,” he maintained. ' Commission Chairman E., P. Luke agreed. “Unless the fine is big enough to hurt, people are not going to pay any attention.” He noted that in Rappahannock County, government had tried to educate citizens with articles in the paper on how much it cost to pick up trash tossed around empty containers at the dumpster sites.
“We tried to tell them this was one way they could keep 'their taxes down,” he said. But Luke added that the educational efforts achieved no results.
Cappelle countered that a litter staffer could offer localities technical assistance in how to update litter control ordinances.
Don’t Have Manpower
“I believe the counties know what to do. They just don’t have the manpower,” Rappahannock Commissioner Robert Anderson responded.
Mcllvaine agreed. "The problem is not in writing ordinances but in enforcement.”
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