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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Three petitions being circulated in the Flint Hill/Washington area highlight the difficult task faced by the Board of Supervisors as it wrestles with the location of the county’s longdelayed sanitary landfill.
Last week the board announced that an application had been filed with the state by Tom Lee, Loretta S. Lee and James Lee to operate a privately-owned landfill on their property between Washington and Flint Hill. A preliminary inspection conducted September 23 by Robert Forman of the Division of Waste Management, Zoning Administrator John McCarthy, three members of the Board of Supervisors and a consulting engineer hired by the Lees found the site to be suitable.
The petitions opposing the site address several concerns about its location. Since the proposed site lies between Fodderstack Road and Rt. 211, the access road to the landfill could be built off the Fodderstack. The petition asks that the supervisors “require that access to such site be from Rt. 211, to avoid the severe, long term, hazardous, and costly impact on Flint Hill and nearby residential areas that access from Fodderstack Road would involve.”
It points out that Fodderstack Road is a “two-lane, curving, hilly country road with a blind summit near the proposed access . . . Whereas, Rt. 211 is a divided four lane highway, with moderate grades, good visibility, and suitable for trucks and other landfill traffic.”
Hubert Gilkey, chairman of
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