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Editorials
A battle lost, a war won
The Jackson District Concerned Citizens’ Committee has done far more than the average collection of folks who band together to fight a landfill proposed near their back yards.
Every proposal for a solid waste disposal facility in Rappahannock County has made instant environmentalists of neighboring property owners. They’ve raised the warning flags of possible groundwater contamination, and then, just as soon as the county abandons plans for a landfill next door to them, the warning flags are lowered and packed away, the tight left to the next community.
That has not been the case in Jackson District.
Maybe the difference is that the site proposed in Jackson District has not been abandoned, but more likely the difference is that the research done by Lorraine Early and her compatriots has convinced their neighbors that groundwater is indeed a fragile resource and one threatened on many sides.
For at least six months, the establishment of a landfill on the Stover tract near Amissville has been a foregone conclusion. But Mrs. Early and other members of the Citizens Committee have continued to monitor all meetings pertaining to the landfill, to relay their concerns to Richmond, and to work to ensure that if there has to be a landfill in Jackson District, it is the best, and safest, landfill possible.
And thanks at least in some measure to the persistence of this citizens’ group, extra steps are being taken to ensure :iwainst environmental degradation.
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