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“Unless they can make water run up hill,” the landfill, which is proposed to be built “on the side of a mountain," will indeed drain into that creek, wrote Jack Dwyer.
Empty containers which once held hazardous agricultural and horticultural chemicals are generally rinsed out three times and then thrown in the dump, said Phil Irwin, Flint Hill resident and president of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection. That standard practice turns a landfill into “a ticking time bomb full of all kinds of environmental problems . . . You must find the most suitable site for this ticking time bomb, not the most economical,” he told the supervisors. “That should be your top priority.”
Procedures ignored
Joyce Abell maintained that the board was making a mistake in only attacking one site at a time. “That’s going to take you forever,” she said, suggesting that Mr. Forman study the alternatives as well as the Lee property and that several sites be evaluated simultaneously. “I’m afraid I’m becoming cynical as to how this board chooses a potential landfill site,” Mrs. Abell continued. A chief consideration is whether it will be cheap for the county, she said, calling the supervisors “penny wise and pound foolish” for looking at short term expenses. “You have to consider property which may cost the taxpayers more money initially but will, over the years, provide the county with a better landfill site.”
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