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“It now appears that the geologic fault which caused a nearby pond to leak runs directly through the site under consideration for a county landfill, and in fact, it runs from Rappahannock County all the way to Albermarle County,” said Frank Reynolds, attorney for Concerned Citizens of Rappahannock County (CCRC), a group of residents opposed to the proposed site. “We have now spoken with the geologist who studied the pond leakage back in 1968 for the Soil Conservation Service, and his response when told of the landfill plans was That’s bad,’ ” said Reynolds.
At the December 3 Board of Supervisors meeting, CCRC presented a copy of a letter from the area conservationist for the Soil Conservation Service to the state conservationist. The letter stated that a thrust fault existed on property immediately to the north of the proposed landfill site. This fault was determined to be the cause of “excessive leakage” around the dam of the pond built on the site, according to the area conservationist.
“According to the state geologist at SCS,” said Reynolds, “this fault runs approximately north-south, and therefore if you locate a landfill on the proposed site, you’re going to hit it.
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