Where do people put it?

Where do people put it?

Some 82 percent of the “burnable trash” is deposited in dumpsters. Of that, the dumpsters at Flint Hill accounts for 23.6 percent of all the trash and the dump site at Amissville kicks in another 22.9 percent of the county’s garbage resource. Price said he figures Rappahannock County produces more trash because the dumpsters here are widely scattered.

Rappahannock County, said Price, produces more garbage “than we have any logical reason to. We really should be under the national average,” he said.

Still, Price said, those figures are not to be thrown in the trash. Said Price: “Trash is still a big problem in our county.”

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needs to be a certain amount of service,” Cilimberg said.

Jenkins said that the stated amount of service needed for the pump would exceed the needs of most of the houses in the area.

“The pump’s not going to be running that often, so if someone has a small house like a lot of the houses out there with the service they have now, I would see no need to increase it,” Jenkins said. He said that the only time a house would need the stated amount of service would be if the house had electric heat, was large and had all of the modem conveniences.

“We have got to meet the federal and state requirements - that’s our responsibility - but I think that where there’s leeway the Authority will do what it can to see that there is not a heavy burden on the people with small homes like you’ve described,” Dennis said.

In other business, the Authority:

-received a letter from its auditor, Denis A. Bailey, describing the recently completed 1984 fiscal year audit. An unaudited report on the 1983 fiscal year will be included with the 1984 audit. Bailey wrote that the 1983 report would be unaudited due to the lack of records during the period. Both reports will be released tomorrow.

-received a letter from Hank Gerhart of Buchart-Hom outlining the interim and final hook-up fee policies. Gerhart had been asked at the Authority’s last meeting to develop an interim hook-up fee schedule and policy to handle requests from home owners who want to be on the sewage system during the system’s construction.

In his letter, Gerhart recommended that the Autl ority combine an interim and final policy. Dennis said that there were some questions Gerhart did not address in his letter. “In future years, we need to know how we’re going to handle service requests - whether we’re going to hire someone to do the work or whether we’ll do it ourselves,” Dennis said. “If we were in D.C. or Richmond we would do it, but we’re not a public works department.”

Dennis asked that Cilimberg, Gerhart and Doug Baumgardner, the Authority’s attorney, work oh the policies.

Treasure Found

Divers studying a Basque whaling ship believed to be the San Juan, which sank in 1565 off the Labrador coast, think they’ve found the oldest articles of their kind ever recovered from a wreck in the New World: A wooden reel probably used to measure speed, a sandglass frame, National Geographic reports.

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