want the citizens to know the facts before they

want the citizens to know the facts before they spend $2,000.1 want you to know the facts before you make a decision.”

In response to another question, Mr. Henry replied that the contingency contract is “five or six pages long,” and is filed at the clerk’s office and may be seen by anyone during business hours.

“I can’t believe,” retorted David Eisenman, that as big as Rappahannock County is” that this is the best site. “I’ve walked it four times; it’s got a branch which runs around it, six or eight springs - there’s a swamp down through it. We found another spring the other day ... It don’t make no sense.

“I’ll tell you,” he alleged, “why it’s going there. Because somebody already put their finger down that it goes there. I guarantee that I’ll do everything (I can) to fight it.”

“There’s streams,” another person shouted, “seven or eight streams go right into the Rappahannock River. It’s 600 feet to the river, a 400 foot drop to the river.”

“I’m not here to debate,” Mr. Henry insisted. “If you give me three minutes, I’ll be happy to tell you.”

“Go ahead, Al!” someone yelled.

“We want to hear,” another voice agreed.

To dispose of the trash in southwest Virginia, Mr. Henry said, would cost $35,000 a month. A regional recycling facility, as proposed by the citizens’ committee, would cost about $50 million and is at least five to six years away.

The board, he added, told the citizens’ committee that it would be happy to look at other sites, other plans. “Col. Bingham was quoted in the paper” as saying that there’d be 1,200 people out looking. “I asked him Saturday,” Mr. Henry continued, “and Col. Bingham said, ‘No, I haven’t looked.’ ”

“The board is trying to be responsible. I don’t think that $1,000 a day is responsible... we want to see it done right, not take any shortcuts. Tonight I asked that the budget allocation (for the landfill) be increased from $300,000 to $450,000 for next