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By Monty Tayloe

Rappahannock News Staff Writer

“It’s reared it’s ugly head again. We fought it tooth and nail, but it’s back,” said Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bob Anderson at the September BOS session.

Anderson was talking about the land application of skidge, an old controversy in Rappahannock County that was resurrected late last month by sludge hauler Recyc Systems and two as yet unknown cdunty landowners.

In August, Recyc, based out of Remington, Va. and formerly called Bio-Grow, informed the county that they would be applying to the Virginia Department of Health for approval to spread sludge on the farmland of two willing Rappahannock landowners. Although Rappahannock has had a ban on the land application of sludge since 1994, Virginia court decisions in the intervening years have probably

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