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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New* SUIT Writer • The Board of Supervisors agreed Monday to pursue finding a central location for dropping off trash so they can close the dumpsters at Huntly and Scrabble.
They also agreed that they will charge a tipping fee to commercial haulers at the landfill once scales are installed, and commercial haulers will not be allowed to use the drop off site. County residents will not be charged for dropping off their own frash.
Jackson District representative Ellis Bingham said he had received a phone call from a citizen concerned about leachate from the Huntly dumpster contaminating the stream behind it.
County Administrator John McCarthy said there had been problems with fires at the dumpsters during the summer. He said tickets had been written for people violating the rules on what trash can be dropped off at the dumpsters, but the county had difficulty getting convictions because “it’s not taken to be serious.”
Piedmont District representative Charles K. ‘Tete” Estes said the county should prohibit anyone who brought in out-of-county trash from ever using the landfill again. “We could pick up hazardous waste from somewhere,” he said.
Once a central site is available, it will be fenced and people will only be able to drop off regular household trash and recyclables when it is open and manned.
The supervisors agreed other counties charging tipping fees make it more likely haulers will try instead to bring trash into Rappahannock’s unmanned dumpster sites.
With scales at the landfill haulers will receive permits to bring in county trash for a tipping fee, but the loads will be spot-checked for trash from outside the county, and a
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