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work and charged to maintenance costs. In addition, Askew noted, prison work crews are not used for litter clean-up in Rappahannock County. Other .personnel are paid a higher hourly rate than what the state penitentiary department charges the local highway department per prisoner, he added.
Litter clean-up statewide cost Virginia taxpayers more than $1.3 million in 1978-79. In the past five years, highway litterbugs have cost the state S6.319.42S.
The money spent on litter pickup last year could have paid for surface treatment (sprayed with oil and covered with crushed rock) on 308 miles of two-lane road; or for 223 miles treated with slurry seal (a mixture of oil and fine stone), or for 52 miles resurfaced with blacktop, according to C. O. Leigh, the
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