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The litter bugs were at it again last year along Virginia’s roads and it cost the state more than SI,093,000 to clean up after them, according to the Department of Highways and Transportation. In Rappahannock County, clean up costs for primary roads amounted to $5,342. The total in Culpeper District for interstate, primary and secondary road clean up was $213,849.
C. O. Leigh, director of road maintenance operations for the department, estimated that more than $10 million has been spent on collecting litter over the past decade. “If the litter problems did not exist, that money could have been spent for much more lasting benefits on safety and other improvements in the highway system,” he said. Leigh said that litter not
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