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To the editor
The Planning Commission’s unanimous decision that the proposed landfill site on the Margohs tract is not in compliance with seven (7) objectives of the county’s Comprehensive Plan deserves the commendation and the wholehearted thanks of every landholder and resident of the county. The Concerned Citizens of Rappahannock County congratulates the Planning Commission on its decisive action.
The Commission’s emphatic votes against the site raise this question: Why, with exactly the same information from all the same experts, has the Board of Supervisors refused to drop its proposal to locate a sanitary landfill on this wholly unacceptable site? Why does it persist, so needlessly, in holding this threat over scores of residents all around that tract, particularly with the knowledge of an underground fissure running directly through the site and the new awareness that any landfill is likely to be prohibitively expensive for a county with a population and trash volume as small as ours?
And why has the Board failed to take advantage of the offer from BFI— one of the largest waste-management firms in the world—to make a free analysis of the county’s trash problem, with the real possibility that BFI itself might make the county a contract offer it could not turn down?
The Planning Commission’s forceful action surely removes the lastexcuse the Supervisors might have had for clinging to the Margolis tract. We urge the Board to drop that discredited site and to shift its focus to alternative solutions of this problem, particularly the exporting of our trash to energy producing disposal facilities that are already established or could be set up on a regional basis.
The optimal final solution to the trash problem of Rappahannock and other counties must provide for recycling of all materials that can in any way be re-used and the conversionof the remainder into forms of needed energy. This suggests that a regional approach should be used so that two or more counties of low population can combine into Regional Energy Production Authorities. Waste-to-energy con
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