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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
“We’re running scared . . . We’re running for our lives.”
That confession underlay the goal of a delegation from Amissville which met with the Rappahannock supervisors in a special session late last Thursday afternoon. The group’s mission: to persuade the board to abandon the 100-acre Stover tract as a landfill site and to seek instead a permit for a farm on Route 211 near Hillsdale owned by AWOW Partnership.
And rather than petitioning the state to approve a landfill that would last upwards of 25 years, the county should apply for capacity sufficient for three to five years and simultaneously work towards a regional waste facility which would use the latest technology to convert trash to energy and other saleable by-products, advised Col. Ellis Bingham, the delegation’s leader.
He told the supervisors that the state’s Division of Waste Management supports such a regional approach and maintained that a regeneration facility would be particularly appealing to the rapidly growing counties of Fauquier and Culpeper. He suggested that the five-county Rappahannock-Rapidan Planning District Commission coordinate the waste disposal and resource-recovery system, which he termed the best available from the standpoint of cost and environmen
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