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By Gerald Ochs Rappahannock News Special Writer
The impending replacement of the Huntly and Scrabble dumpsters with a single, centrally-located transfer station could reverse improvements in trash-freeing the county, says County Administrator John McCarthy.
Effecting the change — mandated by the Board of Supervisors three years ago — will result in creation of a trash transfer site on an eight acre county-owned parcel on Rock Mills Road (Route 622), just across Route 211 from the Rappahannock Farmers’ Co-op.
The transfer station will adjoin a new VDOT facility, and its construction is awaiting completion by VDOT of a shared access road.
The station will be completed between August to late Fall, 1999, depending upon VDOT progress on the access road, site work progress, and any problems encountered. The transfer station
The Rock Mill Road site was chosen, according to Mr. McCarthy, because of its accessibility and because “seventy percent of county residents travel that stretch of 211 during the course of the week.”
The station will accept household trash, newspapers, and separated recyclables. Bulky items, as at the present time, will be accepted only at the landfill.
The exchange of the dumpster sites with a manned transfer station is being done for economic, environmental, and aesthetic reasons.
Transportation costs from a single, central location to the landfill should certainly be
96.2%