Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 1 · column 3 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved
By JON KLAVERKAMP
Rappahannock New. Staff Writer
The Board of Supervisors on January 7 passed a motion to “abandon all proceedings or plans to institute a landfill at the Margolis site.” The Margolis site is on Route 621 near Peyton Farm Estates and has been the subject of controversy for over two months, ever since the Board first proposed to condemn the 138-acre tract of land. The motion passed during the Board’s regular meeting.
Prior to the passing of the motion, Supervisor Nelson Lane read a conciliatory message to all present. “Your Supervisors are stepping up to the plate and are going to deal with this critter. Before we beat up too many people that don’t live next to us, let’s turn this sow’s ear into a silk purse. Let us not fix this problem with another problem of much greater risk and historical probability of impact. I have seen the potential energy of this predicament divide the county.”
Lane continued, “I feel there is a county-wide consensus that we should redirect two forms of energy: 1) we should band together and focus this human energy towards a common and plausible goal, and 2) realize that this trash problem really is a thing of value. I feel Rappahannock is now prepared to force the concept of a regional plant that incinerates this trash and accomplishes several goals. ”
Supervisor Lane said the new concept would avoid court battles, division of peoples, and taxpayers expense, things that would “occur everytime a landfill is sited.” He said the concept (of incineration) would reverse this trend of today where potential energy is wasted. Transforming refuse into a usable form of energy would “eventually decrease the cost to the taxpayer to dispose of this trash,” Lane said. He added that the incineration process wwrid detoxify the waste and thereby protect groundwater resources. “But most of all,” said Lane, “(the plan) would make good common sense.”
87.1%