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John Clark suggested exhausting every avenue in finding another locality to take Rappahannock’s sludge. Then, if a taker can’t be found, allow only locally produced sludge to be spread on the county’s land, he proposed. “I don’t find it hard to say yes to Sperryville and no to Blue Plains... Sperryville’s OUR problem. But until somebody twists you by the arm, don’t give up (the moratorium on outside sludge) ,” Mr. Clark advised the supervisors. “Don’t give it up until you have to,” he repeated, adding that 20 years from now, the county may be hard pressed to find enough land for application of the sludge produced within its boundaries alone.
“I’m here to support your decision to do what you have to do with Sperryville,” Mr. Clark continued. But he asked for another public hearing to be scheduled before a decision is made to accept outside sludge.
“Certainly there’s fear in everything. You can be afraid of driving down the road,” interjected farmer Randall Updike. There’s danger in orchard chemicals if they’re used improperly, just as there’s danger in sludge if it isn’t handled properly, he said. But the dangers posed by land application of sludge in Rapppahannock County are being blown out of proportion, Mr. Updike concluded.
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