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of Supervisors.
In late April in Circuit Court the final case was argued in a two-day trial. Both sides called several witnesses who offered conflicting testimony about the safety of sludge. In the end Judge Joshua Robinson ruled in the county’s favor.
Earlier in federal court in Charlottesville, Magistrate Waugh Crigler had ruled in the county’s favor in the separate federal case.
That ended the court saga in Rappahannock County on the issue of sludge. However, the county’s ban may yet be overturned by the General Assembly.
During last year’s session a bill was introduced at the behest of coal companies and sludge haulers that would eliminate local control over sludge. It passed the State Senate but was withdrawn from the House of Delegates. County Administrator John McCarthy has said several times that he expects the issue to resurface in the upcoming General Assembly session.
Habitat for Humanity
A local branch of the Fauquier County Habitat for Humanity was organized last year, and this spring it successfully built its first Rappahannock County house.
Barbara Shanks and her family qualified for the house and put many hours into its construction. They were joined by volunteers from both Fauquier and Rappahannock counties for a construction project that started in early April and was completed in less than two months.
The local group plans to build another Habitat house during the spring of 1996.
Roads
Kellerco, a road planning company under a contract with Planning District 9, produced plans for what county roads might look like in 50 years.
Possibilities shown on maps produced by the company included an additional lane in each direction on U.S. 211-522 between Washington and Sperryville, and four-laning of U.S. 522 from Chester Gap to Massie’s Comer and from Sperryville to Culpeper with by-pas^es around Flint Hill, Sperryville and Woodville.
Although VDOT had no plans for any of that except possibly a Sperryville by-pass, the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection took up the cause and mobilized a huge crowd for a public hearing in the courthouse
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