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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Every chair in the elementary school auditorium was filled and the overflow stood at the back of the room, as upwards of 150 people turned out for last Wednesday’s public hearing on a proposal for a sanitary landfill near Amissville.
Speaker after speaker argued against use of the 100-acre Stover tract on Route 639. They repeated the same themes sounded by opponents of other suggested dump sites, from the Carrigan property on Rt. 522 in 1976 to the Margoles property in 1984 to the Lee Farm in 1986: the potential for groundwater contamination and devaluation of property, problems with odor and litter, the expense of road improvements necessary for site access and the proximity to a duster of residences.
They added a new argument, maintaining that a landfill should be located nearer the county’s geographic center. They chided the supervisors for even thinking about putting a dump across the road from a landowner who entertains White House staff, senators, congressmen and other dignitaries.
They threatened personal liability suits against board members voting for a landfill on the Stover tract, and they suggested an alternative site - the former Kuhn Farm on Route 211 near Hillsdale, now owned by AWOW Partnership of Nokesville and offered for sale!
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