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Sherwood, spoke of the need to ensure that the ordinance adopted has adequate provision for monitoring and reporting.
Mark Malik raised the specter of a County clogged with sludge when haulers increase the price they will pay landowners to accept it. He said “It may be free today, but they may pay a lot to accept sludge in the future—it could become the primary land use.”
Farm consultant Reid Folsom, who said that he is soon to be a Rappahannock County resident, followed up on his letter of June 26 to County Administrator John McCarthy by giving a primer on the value of nutrient management plans for controlling land application of sludge. Mr. Folsom said that a discrete nutrient management plan must be prepared for each farm and for each crop, and that the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation’s “Nutrient Management Handbook” along with the Virginia Department of Health’s Biosolids Use Regulations “govern the application of sludge to a particular property with respect to quantity, locality, and timing.”
He urged the Commission to employ nutrient management plans as an integral part of the ordinance and “take a strategy of strict enforcement—don’t give an inch.”
Chairman Werner Krebser kept the public hearing open while the commissioners discussed the draft ordinance. Primary point of discussion were the application fees and their ability to cover the costs of monitoring, the use of nutrient management plans, and the probability of sludge application in the County.
Administrator McCarthy expressed his surprise at public comments that characterized the draft ordinance as being weak. “The County put together an ordinance that two counties are being
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