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By SHARON KILPATRICK
lUppaluBMCk Non Staff Writer
The county is having mixed results with its legislative agenda in Richmond, County Administrator John McCarthy told the Board of Supervisors Monday. , He said he had attended a subcommittee hearing on the bills that would overturn the county’s ban on the land application of sewage sludge. He said there was a large crowd of coal miners at the hearing and the bills were amended to take out provisions to use sludge on coal land, but the provisions for agricultural land survived and will be considered by the house agriculture committee Thursday.
Piedmont District representative Charles K. “Pete” Estes and Wakefield district representative Hubert Gilkey agreed to go with Mr. McCarthy to Richmond Thursday to oppose the bills.
Mr. McCarthy said there have been several stories in the Washington Post this winter about problems at the Blue Plains Sewer Plant, where most of the sludge that could be spread on Rappahannock land would come from. He said Attorney General Jaififes Gilmore has described Blue Plains as an “environmental disaster waiting to happen.”
Mr. Estes said people should know that there is no disinfectant U<ed in the treatment process except the use of lime to raise the pH, and any bacteria or viruses that come into the plant can go out again in the sludge.
Hampton District representative
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