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cal water supply for Flint Hill,” he charged.
Should the Supervisors give their blessing to the landfill, he recommended that they ask for bonding to ensure the dump is closed properly and liability insurance “to cover what might happen before it’s closed ... If a quarry filled with brush and stumps caught on fire, it would be expensive to control.”
Zoning question
Mr. List told the board that he intends to purchase just 25 acres which will include the entire quarry site, from the tract owned by W.A. Gentry. Supervisor Charles Estes, recalling a previous subdivision proposal involving the same piece of property, questioned whether the land could be divided. Division would leave an 80 acre parcel without road frontage, he noted.
After Mr. Bennett dropped his dynamite revelation, he told the Supervisors that a spring also originates in the lower end of the quarry. But it was the dynamite that brought a response.
“Are you saying that there’s unexploded dynamite in the quarry?” asked Supervisor Newbill Miller.
“Yes, sir,” the elderly Flint Hill resident replied.
“Do you have any idea how much?” the Hampton District Supervisor questioned.
“I don’t know -- some went off, some didn’t,” Mr. Bennett said. “Anybody who wants to look for the dynamite, I’ll be glad to show
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