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To the editor:
We applaud the Board of Supervisors in their decision to look for alternate methods of waste disposal and to the future of Rappahannock County.
At the present, Rappahannock County is producing approximately 9,000 tons of waste per year; some neighboring counties are also faced with the same problems of waste disposal. At present, Harrisonburg is bunting 75 tons (designed to burn 100) per day and supplies steam heat to the college nearby; they are also looking into the- possibility of an electrical steam turbine to produce electricity, to be purchased by the electric power company there.
It was suggested that one or more of the supervisors had brought forth the idea of a possible joint county type of waste disposal system in order to curtail costs. It is very apparent that with the steady increase of population in this county and throughout the United States that just using landfills and dumps for waste disposal is only a temporary stop gap and that more and more problems will occur, possible contamination of ground water, streams and water sheds by leakage from the sites.
The Environmental Protection Agency has found with their ongoing studies that even the best engineered and monitored sites have leakage.
Some of our group members have talked with State Senator Kevin Miller concerning the problems of landfills, and possible alternates which may help
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