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vent a Board of Supervisors from arbitrarily disallowing the use of sludge.”
Then Sen. Hawkins walked out of the subcommittee meeting. Before the vote to dismiss, however, the subcommittee permitted those attending the meeting to speak to the group.
“I’m sorry that the senator left, because I really take exception to the word arbitrary,” said John McCarthy, Rappahannock County administrator.
Mr. McCarthy said his county had done extensive research on the topic, and its decision for an outright ban on all use of sludge was based on those studies, not a decision arbitrarily reached.
Other county representatives raised concerns about effects on well water, mined land and shorelines.
Proponents of the bill at the meeting were members of Bio-Gro, a company that hauls sludge made at the Blue Plains Sewage Treatment Plant in Washington, D.C. A representative of Bio-Gro said the group agreed
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