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He told the supervisors that two regional facilities are underway, though when questioned he could not give specifics as to where or what type. Estimating that nearby counties which would logically be part of any regional approach produce about 1,000 tons of trash per day, Col. Bingham guessed that a plant capable of turning that garbage into energy would cost between $45 and $50 million. And he acknowledged property for a landfill would still be needed since a regeneration system would, at best, consume 90 percent of the waste stream, leaving 10 percent to be landfilled.
“We’re not trying to argue with trying to beat you down,” Chairman Gilkey assured the Amissville delegation. “But we’ve followed*these avenues, as well as a lot of others, and they’ve always led to a dead end.”
“I know what you all have tried,” Col. Bingham replied. “I know what you have done... I know how many acres you live on. I know a lot about you,” he told the supervisors, adding, “ Mr. Lane isn’t even smiling at that one.”
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Addressing Col. Bingham’s specific suggestions, zoning administrator John McCarthy reported that the AWOW Partnership is no longer interested in selling a portion of its 400 acres for a sanitary landfill. “That offer has been withdrawn.”
Taking up another specific, Supervisor Lane contended that applying for a landfill with sufficient capacity for just three to five years would be “the dumbest thing we could do.” The Stonewall-Hawthome District representative, who has served on two of the board’s landfill committees, noted that there is no economy of scale in putting in a small landfill. “The development is costly,” even for a small site, Mr. Lane said. And in a demonstration that the board has examined alternative technologies for solid waste disposal, he supplied long, technical sounding names and information on system capacities and potential environmental problems for the options outlined by Col. Bingham.
Trying another tactic, the leader of the Amissville delegation said the insistence of the Stover tract’s owners on a contingency sales contract before allowing the county to conduct farther testing is “the oldest real estate ploy in the books.” Has the board already signed such a contract? he asked.
Nothing has been signed and no purchase price has even been offered, Mr. McCarthy answered.
Supervisor Newbill Miller stressed that the board is being straighforward on the landfill issue. “You’re talking about the number of acres we live on, saying this is the oldest real estate ploy in the books and asking if we’ve signed a contract when we’ve said publicly that we haven’t... What we tell you is the way it is!” he assured the representatives from Amissville.
As to using the existing landfill
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