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The Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation spent 1,328 manhours and $6,550 picking up trash off Rappahannock's primary roads in fiscal year 1979-80.
For the state as a whole, litterbugs cost Virginia motorists some $1.5 million last year, an increase of $206,268 over the previous year.
The announcement came this week from the Highway Department as crews around the state began cleanup preparations for Virginia's 48th annual Historic Garden Week, April 18-26.
While the roadside cleanup is costly and trash mars much of the countryside, it also adds a potential safety hazard for the motorist. Blowing paper and other trash can distract a motorist or impair his vision. Discarded cans and bottles are sometimes tossed in the paths of oncoming cars. Trash discarded alongside the highways can become a special hazard in the mowing season when it can be thrown onto the highway by blades of large power mowers or can severely damage equipment.
Culpeper District, of which Rappahannock is a member, had the second highest expenditure—$255,949—for litter cleanup of the state’s
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