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Necessary decision
No one, including the supervisors who voted for it, is going to be happy about closing the dumpster sites at Huntly and Scrabble.
For years, the dumpsters have served residents in the northern and southwestern ends of the county who are a long way from the county landfill in Amissville.
We’re sure that the containers have reduced litter on the roadsides, and there’s no doubt that they have been convenient and saved a bunch of energy otherwise burned by residents driving nearly to the county line east of Amissville to (lump their trash. I However, there are other concerns. The supervisors have been wrangling over those concerns since before the new landfill was permitted several years ago. At that time, they vpry nearly voted to close the unattended dumpster sites in fevor of, perhaps, one centrally-located site between Sperryville and Washington.
The major problem is liability. Unattended disposal sites are attractive targets for midnight dumpers, who can haul geodness-knows-what from heaven-knows-where into Rappahannock and deposit it in the bins. Once it’s there, it becomes the county’s problem.
Physical liability is another, perhaps overlooked problem. The unfenced dumpsters are inviting targets for dumpster divers, who sort through the trash for discarded treasures. If one of them were to be hurt, the county would face a potential liability.
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