Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 1 · column 3 of 5 · from the scan, no model involved
By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Jack Downey of the Environmental Protection Agency estimated the cleanup at a site where barrels were abandoned in Rappahannock County off Route 619 between Rock Mills and Laurel Mills could cost the federal government as much as $100,000.
Mr. Downey was in charge of the workers at the site last week. EPA contracted with the Roy F. Westin Corp. for technical assistance and with Environmental Technology Inc. of Richmond for the labor to do further testing on materials in the barrels and to repackage the barrels in larger barrels for shipment out of state to approved disposal sites.
He said the materials were separated into three categories: “flamables, corrosives, and base neutral” materials. Some of the materials in the barrels had a pH of 12, he said. That measure of acidity and alkalinity
95.2%