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date nor would they seek to acquire any portion of the property for a new dump. In return, the neighboring landowners agreed to drop a threatened legal challenge to continuation of solidwaste disposal at the Woodville site.
“Everything is fine,” Mr. Forman confirmed on Monday. The board’s resolution met his requirements, the landfill supervisor noted. “The closure plan has been submitted and approved. I’m just waiting for written confirmation from our geotechnical man who reviewed the plan.”
Mr. Forman said on Monday that he’d expected to receive written confirmation last week. Asked if the delay may mean an unexpected snag, he said that “the way things have been happening in Richmond the last few months, I’m never sure of anything. But as far as I’m concerned, there’s no problem.”
While the 10-foot lift will give the existing site approximately a year’s worth of extra capacity, Mr. Forman expressed doubt as to whether the landfill could be used for sludge disposal. (To meet the requirements for a sludge management plan, necessary in order for the Sperryville sewage treatment plant to be issued a certificate to operate, the Board of Supervisors has resolved to dispose of sludge in the county’s sanitary landfill.)
Before the dump can be used for Sperryville’s sludge, estimated at just 47 pounds of dry solids per year, approval must be given by the State Water Control Board and his Department of Waste Management, according to Mr. Forman. “Sludge disposal might be a problem . . . With a small landfill like Rappahannock’s, it would depend on how it’s used,” Mr. Forman said. Land application of sludge at the dump site would be “more acceptable,” he said. “You try to put wet sludge INTO the landfill, and you’ve got a problem.”
Mr. Forman reported that Rappahannock’s supervisors have asked for an application for preliminary approval of a new landfill site but that the completed form has not yet been returned to his Culpeper office. Once application is made, the approval process for a new landfill takes eight to 10 months, he concluded.
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