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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock Neva Staff Writer
The Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission did not vote on readopting ordinances banning sludge following a two-and-a-half-hour public hearing Monday night at the high school.
The Planning Commission will vote next Wednesday at their regular meeting at 7:30 in the Courthouse on their recommendation to the Board of Supervisors on an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance to ban the land application of sludge. Then the supervisors will vote October 3 at 7 p.m. on this amendment as well as one with nearly identical wording to ban sludge as an amendment to the County Code under health.
Experts, C. M. Sawyer, division director of the Virginia Department of Health, Thomas Faha, regulatory services supervisor for the regional water board of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Gregory K. Evanylo, associate professor and extension soil scientist from Virginia Tech and Stanford C. Tackett, analytical chemist and professor emeritus from Pennsylvania testified first.
Dr. Sawyer and Mr. Faha described the process of getting a permit through the state. They said the company that spreads the sludge actually has the permit. In general they supported the position that state requirements are rigorous and all that is necessary to protect the environment. They said there are new regulations that took effect in May 1993. Prof. Evanylo also said that there have
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