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grading of the Route 621 approach to the site would cost about $120,000, plus the open-ended expense of condemning the required rights of way. In addition, at least one and probably two bridges would have to be upgraded. Who would foot the bill of several hundred thousand dollars? Again, it's the Rappahannock taxpayer, since district highway engineer Don Askew says flatly the state is not going to pay.
4. Litigation costs. The needless expenditure of revenues on a contested condemnation suit—when far superior sites can be had for far less from willing sellers—is, once again, just a start. There is every reason to anticipate a i flood of damage suits from homeowners whose life savings have been undermined by the location of a sanitary landfill in a residential area when all experience demonstrates that these litigation costs can be avoided simply by locating the landfill in a sparsely populated area.
5. Tax-base erosion. The prospective destruction of land values by threatened pollution around the proposed site and downstream for miles along the Covington, Rush and Thornton rivers would involve a nugor assault on the pocketbooks of property owners all around Rappahannock
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