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There are signs that the Rappahannock supervisors are finally going to take steps to provide a landfill open to all county residents. We want to encourage them to stick with it, even though it may mean condemnation of suitable property, a move sure to be unpopular in a county so small that almost every decision becomes personal.
At Monday’s board meeting, the supervisors heard an attractive proposal from a solid waste disposal company that promises to provide its own site for solid waste disposal. But accepting that proposal would again put Rappahannock in the same position it’s in now. Without a county landfill, the supervisors limit the number of firms that can bid on handling the county’s trash. It makes solid waste disposal a more expensive proposition here.
There are dollar and cent reasons for having a landfill.
According to the Comparative Report of Local Government Revenues and Expenditures for the year ended June 30, 1982, a document prepared by the state’s Auditor of Public Accounts, Rappahannock spent far more per capita than any of its neighbors for trash disposal.
In Madison and Clarke counties, which are most similar to Rappahannock in population and character, citizens paid $1.55 and $1.78 per person far trash disposal hsMdivab, Both have their own the per capita cost for sanitation and waste removal was $7.40; in Fauquier, $6.26; in Orange, $6.67. All three counties have public landfills.
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