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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Board of Supervisors voted to continue the county’s ban on. the land application of sludge, and to enter into an agreement to haul county trash to Fauquier at its regular meeting Monday.
The county currently has a moratorium enacted as an “emergency” measure. With the supervisors going through the process of review ing all county ordinances for inclusion in a new County* Code, Commonwealth Attorney Peter Luke advised them that the moratorium is probably illegal. Mr. Luke suggested if the supervisors wish to continue to ban the land application of sludge, they should adopt it as an amendment to the zoning ordinance.
The supervisors held two public hearings on whether or not to continue to ban the land application of sludge. No one spoke in opposition to sludge at those hearings. Some people asked questions. Representatives from Bio Gro, a firm that applies sludge from the Washington, D.C., Blue Plains treatment plant, appeared at both hearings to answer questions. At both hearings some farmers who would like to have sludge to use as a fertilizer asked to have the moratorium lifted. At the last public hearing in May, representatives from the Virginia Department of Health and the Water Control Board appeared to explain howsludge is regulated to protect streams and public health.
Following the May public hearing,
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