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By Kevin Allen
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
If you can’t ban it, regulate it.
That’s the attitude Rappahannock County officials and many residents have had toward sewage sludge since two farmers applied for permits to spread the low-cost fertilizer on their fields last fall.
When it became clear that Rappahannock’s ban on sludge would not stand up against Virginia laws that allow it to be applied to fields, county officials began working to crafl new sludge regulations.
The County Board of Supervisors finalized that effort Monday by unanimously adopting a new ordinance that will replace the 13-year-old county ban on the land application of sludge.
Also known as biosolids, sludge is a combination of human and industrial waste that is treated to
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