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Trash
The Board of Supervisors needs to find a permanent solution to the problem of providing locations for citizens to dispose of their trash and recycle the portion of the trash that can be recycled.
Full service is offered only to those citizens who live in the Amissville area. The rest of the county’s citizens cope with a makeshift arrangement of dumpster sites at Huntly and Scrabble and a recycling area behind the Washington Fire Hall that does not accept paper.
The dumpster sites are open at all times, and that is certainly convenient. But they are unmanned and uncontrolled. This presents the county with a massive liability.
The supervisors learned last month that potentially toxic chemicals had been placed in the Huntly site. This month they learned there had been a fire in that dumpster. Two weeks ago there were two fires at the Scrabble dumpster. What if the fires had occurred while the hazardous chemicals were in the dumpsters?
The only acceptable solution is to provide one or more ' manned sites that accept ordinary trash, reclycables including paper, and temporary storage for hazardous ' materials.
The site at Huntly is small and on a state-owned highway right-of-way. It is not a candidate for expansion and fencing. v - The Scrabble site is large enough to be fenced and controlled and it is county owned, but there is a question whether it is handy for a large enough percentage of the county’s people.
For some years there has been talk of opening a new center for trash and recycling on county-owned land somewhere in the Washington to Sperryville corridor. When the supervisors decided to expand the elementary school Instead of purchasing land for a new middle school, the plan got derailed. However, the need the trash site did not go away.
The need for additional county-owned land to serve future school expansion did not go away either. Eventually the county will have to build another school. In the meantime •both existing schools are facing sewage problems that are leading inexorably to the need for the county’s second sewage treatment plant.
The Board of Supervisors needs to seriously look at / purchasing enough land to house a convenience site for trasfi, & sewage treatment plant for county schools and perhaps the general commercial area, and another school.
The land for the additional school could be used for expanded athletic facilities long before the school is built.
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