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said she will encourage farmers to fence their cattle out of streams ?? the top source of bacterial pollution in county waters.
Rifaat said she supports Tier 3 designation for segments of the Hazel River. The program provides extra protection for bodies of water that citizens nominate for consideration as exceptional natural resources.
Wayland said he does not support the designation, explaining that he does not want the federal government coming into the county to enact more regulations.
Estes-Baader also opposes the designation, saying she believes cleanup should come from within the county, rather than federal or state regulation.
All three candidates also voiced opposition to the application of sewage sludge on county land. But, again, they presented different plans for handling the issue.
“There are too many toxins in sludge that are not tested for,” said Rifaat, who added that she does not want to rely on the Virginia Department of Health to ensure that sludge is safe to spread on land in the county. “Don’t regulate it; we don’t want it.”
“We need to continue, to research [sludge] and make it as difficult as possible [to apply it],” Wayland said. “We’re not going [to be able] to stop it.”
Estes-Baader supports maintaining the county’s ban on sludge application, even though the state of Virginia allows it. She noted that the ban has discouraged sludge application on county land in the past.
“We should stay the course ... there are too many unknowns,” Estes-Baader said.
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