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Dumpsters
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According to Leonard Joyce, the county’s landfill engineer, the compactor and installation would cost between $50,000 and $75,000 per site; in addition, extension of threephase power to the Scrabble site will run $10,000 to $20,000.
But if the sites are permanent, then the expense would be offset over time by reduced hauling costs and increased landfill capacity as a result of compacting, he noted.
Should compactors be installed, the board acknowledged, an operator would have to be at the sites while they’re open to the public. But Supervisor Massie pointed out that hours could be staggered. “People would know that on Monday and Tuesdays, they can take their trash to Scrabble; Wednesdays and Thurdsays to Huntly; and Friday they’d have to go to the landfill in Amissville . . . We’ve got to do more than we’re doing. It’s disgusting the way they are now.”
Mr. McCarthy noted that accumulated “white goods" — discarded refrigerators, washing machines, and other large applicances — will be picked up from the dumpster sites as soon as the new landfill opens. “Right now, we don;t have any place to put them.”
Removal of that refuse from the Amissville dumpster site alone will cost between $5,000 and $6,000, Col. Bingham predicted.
“Here’s what we’re up against,” said Chairman Hubert Gilkey, recounting a recent incident where a resident of Lake Front Royal in neighboring Warren County drove up to Chester Gap looking for a dumpster. Told there were no dumpsters in Chester Gap and further that only Rappahannock County residents could legally use the green box in nearby Huntly, “he said he knew that,” but added “a real estate agent had assured him it would be fine, that he could dump there,” Mr. Gilkey reported.
The problem of unlawful disposal by non-county residents would be solved if compactor operators were stationed at the dumpster sites, Col. Bingham interjected. “If you don’t have a county sticker, you don’t dump.”
By consensus, the board agreed that its recently organized Landfill Advisory Committee should study the issues of limiting access to the
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