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With a 6-0 vote late Tuesday afternoon, Culpeper’s Board of Supervisors gave Rappahannock 90 more days of trash disposal, the time administrative assistant John McCarthy says is needed to complete construction of a county landfill on the 100-acre Stover tract near Amissville. The timetable he gave the Culpeper board assumes that issuance of a state permit is as close as the Department of Solid Waste Management has indicated.
“We really appreciate their reasonableness,” Mr. McCarthy said, after the action from the Culpeper supervisors. “We appreciate their recognition of our good faith effort to get a landfill installed.”
Culpeper had initially agreed to take Rappahannock’s municipal solid waste for 120 days, with this county to accept at some future point three loads of trash for every two sent to Culpeper plus pay Culpeper’s hauling expenses. At Rappahannock's board meeting Monday, Mr. McCarthy noted that the “trash swap” contract with Culpeper would end April 27.
Meanwhile, Rappahannock’s permit application is “sitting on Cynthia Bailey’s desk” in Richmond, awaiting only the signature of the Department of Waste Management’s director for approval, Mr. McCarthy added.
“If the permit is as pending as the state says,” and with construction time for the Stover landfill estimated at 60 to 70 days, a 90-day extension of the Culpeper agreement will see the county through its trash crisis, he
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