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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSUN
Rappahannock News Contributing; Writer
“There are certain costs incurred in operating a landfill, no matter what the scale. No county can run one for under $100,000 a year. If you’re doing it for less, you’re not doing it right,” maintains Bob Lee, Clarke County administrator. ' Small, predominately agricultural Clarke County (popukjfcion 10,200) hauls its solid wastes to the Frederick Xounty landfill next door. And under that agreement, “we spend less than a third (of $100,000),” Mr. Lee noted.
The experience in Clarke and recent developments in Loudoun County, which is negotiating for a regional resource recovery facility, show that alternatives to an every-county-landfill exist. These alternatives merit closer scrutiny, as time — and landfill capacity — run out here. / v
Rappahannock’s privately owned and operated landfill on Clifton Clarke’s property near Woodville now measures its life expectancy in months. Local officials will have to decide soon, probably by April 1, where to dump the 5,000 tons of trash generated annually.
There appears to be agreement on one point: opening a second dump site in the county is the least
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