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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
A proposed location for the long sought sanitary landfill has passed its first test. On Tuesday, Robert Forman of the Virginia Division of Waste Management found land near Washington owned by the Lee Partnership “not perfect (as a sanitary landfill), but with proper planning, it will be all right.”
He added that there is no perfect spot for a dump. “If it’s a perfect site, if it’s a perfect place, if the soils are perfect for a landfill, then they’re also perfect for septic fields and residences, and everybody already lives there! If I get ‘good’ (on a site evaluation), I’m tickled to death.”
Mr. Forman inspected the tract on Tuesday morning with a consulting engineer hired by the Lees, Zoning Administrator John McCarthy and Supervisors Newbill Miller, Charles K. Estes and Hubert Gilkey. “The soils look pretty good,” he announced in a telephone interview Tuesday evening. “We looked for rock outcroppings but we didn’t find any.”
The proposed 10-acre landfill is located in a heavily wooded area at the top of a ridge line between the Fodderstack Road and Route 211. The site is near the middle of a 128acre tract, with the nearest residences (all owned by the Lee family) at least a mile away, according to Mr. McCarthy. The land surrounding the 128-acre tract is also owned by the Lees, he noted.
Private, not public, landfill
The state is being asked by Tom Lee, Loretta S. Lee and James Lee to approve a privately operated sanitary landfill. “The board, at present, has np iptention of buying the landfill site or running the landfill,” Mr. McCarthy emphasized. “If the site is approved, the county will be contracting with the Lees to operate the landfill. It will be somewhat along the lines of what the county has done in the past.”
Currently, the Board of Supervisors contracts with Community Trash, Inc., to provide and maintain refuse containers at various locations. Under the terms of the agreement with Community Trash, solid waste becomes the responsibility of the company once it’s deposited in the dumpsters.
Since 1976, Community Trash
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