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Dick McNear suggested the county should not ban sludge but regulate it as Fauquier has. He suggested it should only be allowed in agricultural zones and that the county might want to specify only Class A sludge. “Before the county creates an ordinance that disallows it. it ought to have a pretty good rationale. We would be hard pressed to defend it in a court of law,” he said.
Since Mr. McNear served as a planner in Fauquier County, Chairman Allen Stokes asked him about problems he had encountered in that county. Mr. McNear said that at first some companies has used trucks without covers over the load. He said some people found the odor offensive and that it “smells like the plains after a rain.” He said it also led to a “lot of big trucks going down the roads, but it was nothing but beneficial to the farmers.”
Bill Cotter, a representatives of Bio-Gro, a firm which spreads sludge on farmland in the area, said that the Environmental Protection Agency is in the process of changing the rating system and that only composted sludge will be rated Class A, The EPA will rate Blue Plains
See Planning, Page A-8
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