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ment firm that is willing tc study Rappahannock’s wastedisposal needs for free.
The list goes on. These Concerned Citizens have researched State and Federal landfill regulations and have ■* passed such information onto the Supervisors. Right now the CCRC is looking into the possibility of Rappahannock hooking up with Arlington and Alexandria’s planned joint waste-energy facility. The Supervisors have not taken the CCRC seriously, claiming that their efforts and data must be biased. If the struggle to preserve one’s land and home is a bias, then it is a bias worth having. An honorable prejudice.
In his letter Delbert Price speaks for the members of the CCRC, “...we continue to stand ready to do whatever we can, whenever asked, to assist the Supervisors in finding a solution that will be fiscally, ecologically and socially acceptable to the people of Rappahannock.” That’s quite an offer.
On January 7 the Board of Supervisors did agree to the formation of a citizen group whose purpose would be to study the waste-disposal problem. Nothing wrong with this. But no limit should be placed on the number and types of groups willing to assist. Why not welcome everyone willing to help? What’s to lose?
The CCRC is a well-informed and energetic group of citizens, asking if they can help. They are mobilized, awaiting only orders.
The Board of Supervisors should have invited them into the process, not only as a matter of form-but of substance.
ever asked, to asist the Supervisors in finding a solution that will be fiscally, ecologically and socially acceptable to the people of Rappahannock County.”
‘To repeat what we told the Board and the county residents earlier: 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 reused and the conversion of the remainder into 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 conversion plants can sell that electricity produced to the public utility companies, which are now—by federal law—required to buy it at reasonable rates’.”
CONCERNED CITIZENS OF
RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY
Delbert Price
Chairman
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