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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Special Writer
Three months ago, in trying to resolve the county’s impending trash crisis, Rappahannock’s supervisors were “seriously considering trying to get another parcel of Mr. (Clifton) Clark’s land approved for a landfill,” reported Robert Forman of the Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management.
“They sure enough worked up quite a scheme,” Mr. Forman said. “But that was three months ago and I haven’t heard a word from them since. They know it’s running out.”
“Running out” is the capacity at the current landfill on Mr. Clark’s property near Woodville. According to Mr. Forman’s projections of a year ago, the life of the solid waste disposal site would end this April, an expectancy estimate that sent the supervisors begging to nearby localities for permission to dump Rappahannock’s trash beyond the county line.
A special committee named by the board had investigated options to opening a new landfill here and recommended contracting with another landfill or a resource recovery facility to dispose of the county’s solid waste.
But according to reports, the nearest cogeneration facility in Harrisonburg could take only bumables, which account for approximately two-thirds of Rappahannock’s output, and that for only 11 months of the year.
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