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By JON KLAVERKAMP
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Board of Supervisors in its February 4 meeting authorized a committee to form a recommendation on an ordinance that would control or ban the application of sludge in Rappahannock County. The Board will review the recommendation at its next regular meeting. The motion to form the committee passed only after at least three persons present strongly urged the Board to ban sludge immediately, all claiming that the county would be better served by passing the ordinance now.
Wayne Cilimberg, Executive Director of the Planning District Nine Commission, was first to raise the issue of sludge at the meeting. The prospect of banning sludge entirely, which arose at the Board’s January 7 meeting, worried Cilimberg. Specifically his concern related to the upcoming Sperryville sewage system, which he said will create sludge for which there will be no means of disposal if sludge is banned.
Cilimberg said that right now Rappahannock has an arrangement with Culpeper County to dispose of sludge, but he warned that that situation could change. “There is no guarantee on that,” said Cilimberg, referring to the present agreement between the two counties. He cited the possibility of Culpeper banning sludge itself one day.
Cilimberg forwarded to the Board a suggestion by Bob Dennis, Director of the Water and Sewer Authority (WSA), that the Board and the WSA meet to discuss the matter of sludge before placing a ban on it.
After being cautioned by Cilimberg, the Supervisors became hesitant about enacting the ban on sludge. The one exception was Supervisor Clarence Baldwin, who said “It scares me that we don’t have any law preventing it (sludge! from coming into county ”
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