Comments on: LETTER: Staff Misled Supervisors on Waste Management https://capecharleswave.com/2015/04/letter-staff-misled-supervisors-on-waste-management/ Your Online Newspaper in Cape Charles, Virginia Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Jack Richardson https://capecharleswave.com/2015/04/letter-staff-misled-supervisors-on-waste-management/#comment-171825 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 01:02:11 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=16247#comment-171825 I was living in Kent County MD 27 years ago when Wheelabrator Incinerator wanted to invest in the county to convert waste to steam and generator electricity. They said they would not be bringing waste from outside the county. What they did NOT say was that others would be bringing that waste to them. They were ultimately defeated because they were asking for a variance and it was denied.

It seems language needs to be written into the Zoning laws prohibiting industrial incineration or similar to protect the county from the pollution which comes from that process.

]]> By: Ken Dufty https://capecharleswave.com/2015/04/letter-staff-misled-supervisors-on-waste-management/#comment-171795 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:04:34 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=16247#comment-171795 Coming from a farm family and indeed as a past owner of a 50-acre horse farm where we raised chickens and goats along with our quarter horse breeding operation, I want to clarify that my objection to “resource recovery” is aimed at large scale commercial incinerators and import of large amounts of waste into this county generated from afar. If a farmer wants to use his manure produced on-site to produce heat or energy, he does not need language in a zoning ordinance to do that. That is covered under the “right to farm act” and is allowed as long as he or she is not importing tractor trailer loads of waste onto his farm. The proposed language in the new zoning ordinance of “resource recovery” with no caveat again lowers fhe flood gate for unchecked import of waste from, for example, large scale industrial chicken house operations like the one purportedly proposed for lands just north of Exmore on the Seaside Road. Just wanted to clarify that we are in enthusiastic support of farmers and their operations, and we are avid supporters of the Agricultural and Forestal District program that encourages owners of farmland to keep those acres in active farming.

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