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and Mr. Gregori raised the possibility — “if the county had a real good site on line” — of seeking a permit for waste storage as an interim measure. At the same time, an application for a landfill could be initiated. Since issuance of a permit has been taking upwards of eight months, there appears to be no way Rappahannock can have a full fledged landfill in operation by the July 1 deadline; an arrangement for temporary storage in a holding trench could buy time for the permit approval process to be completed, Mr. McCarthy explained. “They were saying that they might be able to get that permitted by July 1. . . Later, the trash would be dug out and put in the permanent site.”
Mr. McCarthy emphasized, however, that this approach was put on the table as a possibility, not as a promised solution to the county’s impending trash crisis. “Given our state of emergency, they appear to be willing to facilitate (a one-year permit for a holding trench) as long as they’re convinced that the public health, safety and welfare won’t be jeopardized ... But they’re not willing to cut comers on a landfill permit.”
The state’s willingness to “facilitate” even a permit for a holding trench hinges on the county having “a real good site on line.”
Currently, the board has only a single location under consideration: the 100-acre Stover tract off Route
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