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public only when a county employee was present to supervise disposal.
However, on Monday when Mr. McCarthy asked the supervisors to approve his negotiating with a landowner to purchase a site for a waste transfer station, Hampton District representative Mike Massie balked.
“We might be getting into something private enterprise ought to do,” Mr. Massie said. “We could close all the dumpster sites and open it up to the private hauler.” He said Culpeper County does not maintain any sites except at the landfill. Homeowners who don’t want to drive to the landfill with their trash contract with private haulers to take their trash to the landfill, he said. “I think we ought to try the same thing I here,” he added.
Mr. McCarthv estimated that r about $100,000 of the $180,000 the ■ county is paying Community Trash • this year is for servicing the two r dumpster sites. With only one site the cost should drop. With none it could be expected to drop more.
The other supervisors agreed to hold a public hearing at their May meeting on closing the dumpster sites at Huntly and Scrabble without opening another site.
Mr. McCarthy also reported that he had run calculations on the cost of operating the landfill. Not counting such one-time costs as buying the land and building the road, it costs the county about $84 per ton of trash to operate the landfill.
He said negotiations were continuing with Page and Warren counties to establish an authority to operate a regional landfill. He estimated that the cost to the county for trash disSee
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