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Later he said he would feel differently if the sludge was produced in Rappahannock County, but in fact the sludge that would come to Rappahannock County without the ban would come from the Blue Plains treatment plant in Washington, D.C. “It’s not the human excrement that bothers me; it’s sludge produced in an urban environment,” he said.
Piedmont District representative Tom Junk said he was concerned about allowing a substance to be put on the land that is “banned from the ocean and banned from unlined landfills. Probably the safest way (to dispose of it) is incineration,” he said. “I realize fanners need a boost, but they pay for fertilizer. If the stuff is so good they would be lined up at Blue Plains to pay for it. With our own sludge it might be a differeent thing. I’m for the adoption of the ordinance.”
Jackson pistrict representative David Fannon said most of what he wanted to say had already been said. “Ten years from now I’ll feel better having voted against sludge. I’m for the ban,” he said.
Chairman Mike Massie, who represents the Board of Supervisors on the Planning Commission, noted that a 1987 study showed Blue Plains planned to incinerate half the
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