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Mr. McCarthy had provided the supervisors with cost estimates for various alternatives for handling county trash: $63 per ton for hauling trash to a new landfill cell in Fauquier County, $73 to open and operate a new cell at the county’s own landfill, $57 for Spratt Rejcycling, and $71 for BFI. All of these costs were for one transfer site only; they did not include the cost of continuing to collect trash at Huntly and Scrabble or the cost of replacing those two sites with a more central one.
Jackson District representative Ellis Bingham insisted that Mr. McCarthy’s figures were incorrect, especially his estimate on the costrof operating the county’s own landfill.
He said he estimated it would cost $37 per ton to operate a new cell, $56 per ton if Huntly and Scrabble were kept open, and $24 per ton if the county agreed to take “fluff’ again.
He began the table pounding insisting that the supervisors not go any further before receiving a briefing from Royer Engineering, the firm that submitted plans for the new cell to the state on the county’s behalf.
Mr. McCarthy based his estimate on a two-acre new cell lasting two and a half years.
Col. Bingham said his estimates were based on seven years without taking fluff and four years if fluff is added. He said the county should
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