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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
The county’s response to the suit on sludge brought by landowners Dale Welch, John H. Powers, Patricia Saltonstall and Werner Krebser was filed in the clerk’s office last Wednesday.
The response goes down the list of 80some numbered paragraphs of the amended suit, denying many, agreeing to a few, and stating that others are not proven.
It ends with a “demurrer” seeking to have the case dismissed and requesting legal fees and costs for the county.
The response, filed by George Gilliam, who was retained by the state to represent the county, basically claims that the decision of the Board of Supervisors to adopt an amendment banning the land application of sludge, was legal and the supervisors acted after a careful review of positions both in favor of sludge application and opposed to it.
The response denies that the decision to adopt the ordinance amendment was “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable.”
It cites provisions in federal law that al
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