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In Rappahannock, we paid $9.53 per person that same year. And we have far too few dumpsters, limits on what we can put in those dumpsters and no place to get rid of large items that won’t fit into the green boxes.
The county has a private landfill. Only employees of Community Trash, the company that holds the current contract for handling Rappahannock’s solid waste disposal, have access. That contract expires in June, 1984. According to zoning administrator David Konick, the special use permit for that provate landfill is good only until November of the following year, the same time that Health Department officials estimate capacity at the site will be reached.
It may be too late this year to find and gain ownership of land for a county dump before it’s time to negotiate a new trash contract. But the supervisors’ search to find property should continue—and intensify. We suggest they offer the trash disposal contract for just one year and aim for 1985 to have a site for a county-owned sanitary landfill ready so they can solicit bids from several trash companies, not just those that have their own dumps.
We can get more competitive prices that way. And watch, we’ll see little businesses spring up in the county, offering people trash pick-up service. The move should give our local economy a boost, provide citizens ...with, better optionsoft how to get rid
UHraHer the per capita cost to the taxpayers for solid waste disposal. And, at the same time, we’ll be in full compliance—finally—with state law.
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