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By DAPHNE McCULLOI GH
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer ,
The Rappahannock Supervisors opened another front in their continuing battle with the county’s trash problem at last Thursday’s Board meeting and decided to ban trespassing WITHIN the dumpsters.
Commonwealth Attorney George Davis maintained that people looking for salvage materials threw trash out of the containers and were responsible for much of the mess around the dumpster sites.
Supervisor Edwin Eastham reported that he’d found people inside the Huntly dumpsters recently. “The reason I know they were in there is because I threw some trash in on somebody and they threw it right back out at me.” He said he tried a second container only to find it also occupied.
Davis suggested that the Board make it illegal to take materials out of the dumpsters.
The Supervisors agreed to have signs stenciled on the containers stating that trespassing was not allowed inside.
Sheriff W. A. Buntin said that the action would help his department control litter at the sites although he added that he’d rarely caught foragers inside the containers but instead found them poking around outside.
Gen. Hugh Exton informed the Supervisors that there has been trash on the ground at the Amissville dumpster location for months. “Either the contractor is not doing his job or he’s charging you for a job that he hasn’t done,” said Exton, referring to the county’s agreement with Community Trash Service.
(Under the current contract, Community Trash is supposed to clean up trash on the ground at the dumpster sites for additional charges of $5 per cubic yard. These charges are assessed over and above the set contract fee and generally run between $300 and $500
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