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spoken to Clifton Clark, the owner of the land being used for the present landfill, about how much of his land has been used and how much could be used as a landfill. “On this tract, eight acres were zoned as suitable for a landfill site,” said Banks. “Since 1977,78, or as early as 76, the county has utilized two acres of this eight acres available to them.”
Banks said that Clark is willing to continue with the present arrangement with the county, and he said that he had been to Culpeper County to find out how much is spent there to operate the county landfill. “They have 25,000 tons of solid waste deposited in their landfill, and they have an operating budget of $171,600 per year to operate this landfill there,” Banks said. “Now these are expenses that this county can expect to incur, and presently in Rappahannock County it costs us $58,000 to utilize the landfill on Mr. Clark’s property and that’s for everything. ”
Wood told the Council that possible alternate sites have been found in the county. “We have located at least one, and one or two other excellent possibilities with smaller acreages, willing sellers, no exceptionally good forest cover or wildlife values or major drainages, and accessed from a major highway,” Wood said. “So it’s not like it has to go here or nowhere.”
Mayor Peter Kramer told the CCRC members that the Council has no jurisdiction in the matter, and could only act as citizens of the Town of Washington and of Rappahannock. “We are in the process of obtaining an ordinance that would give us some control over potential water problems up to a five mile radius of the town, and we are struggling with that,” said Kramer. “I don’t know how soon we’ll have that ordinance, but if we had it then I suppose we’d have the authority to participate in an official capacity.”
Wood told the Council that the group was aware that the Town Council has np jurisdiction in the matter, but that “the Council as a body can have a lot of control over what the county government does in the way of endorsement or statement.”
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