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To the editor
I know my landfill concerns should long ago have been laid to rest by your Mt. Trashmore article, but the future of my favorite Rappahannock River swimming hole still seemed uncertain when I saw how quickly the Washington Town Council ordinanced a fence (hold the chainlink) around its backyard. I try to keep up with this landfill situation, but all I really know is what I read in the paper.
Maybe I’m just being silly.
Because the Board of Supervisors prefer reaction to impending crises rather than long range planning (Mr. McCarthy’s still a long way from a detailed site plan for the Stover tract), their Site Selection Committee had to evaluate the few available sites as quickly as possible. They managed to pick one in an extreme corner of the county, near an area of growing residential development, surrounded by three streams, the Culpeper border, and the state’s scenic river for which this county is named. The site also happens to be in my backyard.
Predictably, Amissville residents started screaming. Maybe it was pent-up emotion from the failure of their Butch Zindel petitions. When they began meeting at the firehall, your newspaper lectured them on their “not-in-my-backyard” psychosis and phoned Three Mile Island to set the record straight and calm them down (Mt. Trashmore revisited).
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