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named that district’s representative last December following the death of veteran supervisor and former board chairman J. Richard Latham. Holding up the page, Mr. Frazier insisted “this could easily have been done for the Lee site, and it was not! This could easily have been done for other sites, and it was not!”
Alternative site proposed
Frances Semone urged the supervisors to “look at the Kuhn property and look at it good.”
That site is “far more isolated,” said Duchee Fannon. She told the supervisors that there are fewer homes near those 400 acres, which are located on Route 211 between Ben Venue and Hillsdale and owned by AWOW Partnership. “It’s surrounded by so many massive farms.” If the landfill is located at the rear of the parcel, where preliminary tests indicate the deepest soils are, the balance of the 400 acres will serve as a buffer and further reduce the chances that wells may be contaminated, Mrs. Fannon said.
Col. Ellis Bingham conceded that landfilling presents the most economical solution to Rappahannock’s trash problem. “But there’s no assurance it’s the best solution in the long run.”
“Responsible and responsive government” is guaranteed by Virginia’s Constitution, Col. Bingham said. And in 1971, the addition of a conservation article to the Constitution committed state and local governments “to pursuing environmental quality.” Putting a landfill on the Stover tract would violate both the guarantee and the commitment, he argued.
The supervisors “must be willing to follow the advice and the suggestions of the people,” Col. Bingham continued. “Any solution (to the county’s trash crisis) must be an acceptable solution to EVERY member of the community.” He insisted that the board does not have the power of eminent domain to acquire property for a landfill since such a solid waste disposal facility could endanger the public safety and welfare. Pointing out the option of another site, he warned the supervisors that under federal law, “whoever votes for it (a landfill on the Stover tract), personally becomes liable.”
Run-off from the landfill will pollute nearby streams, insisted C. D. Green. “Vote your conscience so when you walk down the street tomorrow and look in your neighbor’s face, you can truly say you did the right thing,” he told the board mem
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