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THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1988
Editorial
The solution
Hubert Gilkey, chairman of the county’s board of supervisors, last week provided an example of the problem Rappahannock faces with its dumpsters.
He told the board of a Warren County resident who drove to Chester Gap looking for a dumpster to throw away his garbage. He was told that only Rappahannock County residents can legally use the county’s dumpster sites. He replied that he knew that, but he had been assured by a real estate agent in Warren County that there would be no problem with him using the dumpsters anyway.
No problem? That’s not what we see.
What we see is discarded appliances, broken furniture, crumbled roofing tiles, chunks of concrete, nail-studded boards and other refuse from building sites, tree and brush trimmings, and garbage everywhere — in and around the county’s dumpster sites.
Much of it is probably from county residents who are legally disposing of their trash. But we’d bet that at least some of the mess — and perhaps a substantial portion — is deposited by out-of-county people like that Warren County resident. They find a trip over Chester Gap, or across the Culpeper/Rappahannock line to Amissville, quicker and easier than a drive to their own county’s landfill. And they can do it at their convenience, not during the restricted hours of the county-operated landfills nearby.
The problem of illegal dumping, and the mess created by those slobs too lazy to put their garbage in the dumpsters, is a priority which needs to be addressed by the board of supervisors.
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