By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON

By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON

Rappahannock New* Staff Writer “Either we use public land (for dumpster sites) or we don't use any land. It's come down to that," announced Supervisor Chairman E. P. Luke at last Thursday's Board meeting. Luke and Hampton District Supervisor Clarence Baldwin appeared to have found a solution to the county's continuing trash problem—at least for the town of Washington. Luke reported that he and Baldwin had located a spot for dumpsters across the bridge from the old mill on old Route 211 on Highway Department property. ‘‘I don't know how many complaints we’re going to get.” he added.

As the county locates additional spots for dumpsters on Highway Department rights-of-way, Luke predicted that the Supervisors would be faced with a public outcry. “The bitchin’ and hollerin' that's going to go on is going to be tremendous," he said, asking for assistance from the rest of the Board members in responding to the complaints. “H.B., you look like a prime candidate," Luke remarked to Supervisor H. B. Wood.

Wood replied that the only problems his district had with trash disposal were the result of people from other areas of the county bringing garbage to the Scrabble dumpsters.

“When the static and hollerin’ starts, we’re ALL going to have to take the heat.’’ Luke countered. “We'll have to spread it around evenly." Either dumpsters will be placed on Highway Department rightsof-way or they won’t be put anywhere, he maintained. "Time’s running out. We’re going to have to do something.”

The Board authorized Luke to hire a contractor to clear and gravel the new Washington dumpster site. Baldwin interjected that he wanted 24 hours notice before the work was actually done, apparently to prepare for the anticipated public response.

Supervisor Butch Eastham told the Board that he’d recently noticed fenced dumpsters (along Route 522 in Warren County). “They looked pretty good,” he added.

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