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Opponents of sewage sludge use on farmland packed the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors meeting room on Monday night to make their views known at a public information meeting sponsored by the State Health Department.
The department held the meeting, which state law requires, to inform the public about pending applications by Bio Gro Systems Inc. to spread sludge on approximately 3,000 acres of Loudoun farmland and by Recyc Systems Inc. to build a sludge holding lagoon near Hillsboro.
Recyc proposes the lagoon on the farm of Donald T. Virts, where it already has state approval, but no county permit, to spread sludge it hauls from Piscataway Sewage Treatment Plant in Maryland.
Members of the board of supervisors attended, but stressed their role as spectators, not decision-makers.
“This is not a meeting of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, although it may look like it,” Chairman Frank Raflo said at the beginning.
Board members also made "clear that while they have sanctioned use of sludge on farmland, through an ordinance adopted last year, they don’t feel any obligation to allow lagoons, which the zoning ordinance does not permit.
“I don’t believe Loudoun County is ready for a lagoon,” said supervisor and farmer James F. Brownell, “not now or maybe ever.”
Berryville hires manager
Berryville’s part-time zoning administrator will become its full-time town manager April 1.
R. John Hogan, who is employed full-time now as special ordinance administrator for Clarke County, was
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