Questions for Board of Supervisor Candidates, Accomack County

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Respondent:  Emory F. Hurst, District: 7 Date: 8/14/07 1. In your opinion, what are the top three problems for the county? A. Development B. Solid waste and sewage C. Maintaining the County’s assets 2. Why are these problems? A. The County does not have the infrastructure to support development – Fire, Ambulances, Schools. B. Pollution. Many septic tanks do not function properly. You used to be able to swim off the high dock at East Point Marina. C. The County wastes money by not maintaining its assets. Old schools should be used, not trashed. 3. What would you do about them if elected to the Board of Supervisors? A. People have property rights, but we have to have controlled development. We cannot let development run way over what our infrastructure can handle. B. The county needs to do more re-cycling, for example of plastics, diesel oil, etc. The Bobtown sanitary landfill leaches into Pungoteague Creek. C. Mandate the school system leaders to better maintain their schools. The County should better maintain the drainage ditches. 4. What do you think about water in the county – Storm water, Ground water, seawater, bay water? Ground water: we have a limited amount. We are drawing more than the recharge rate. Seawater: we need to control pollution. Storm water: as far as ditch maintenance is concerned, it is a tradeoff between pollution from rapid runoff during storms and a mosquito problem from maintaining water to recharge aquifers. 5. What do you think of the recent (June, 2007) report on the Accomack County Public Safety System? We need paid firefighters. Scanners calling for ambulances know of people dying due to slow response time. There has to be a countywide approach – put it as a referendum before the people of the County. If you have questions or comments or would like to respond please click here.