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(Continued from Page 1) here, Lorraine Early opposed a location so close to the village of Ami8sville. “It will cause a loss in the market value of our'land and a loss in taxes.”
Noting that the county is currently undergoing a general reassessment of real estate, she said that the impact of a landfill should be taken into account in the reappraisals. “When it devalues our land, we will expect to pay less taxes,” Mrs. Early told the supervisors, adding that a landfill should be sited closer to the center of the county to reduce the cost of hauling solid waste.
In evaluating the Stover tract, the site selection committee overlooked important points, maintained Ron Frazer. “Within a one-mile radius, there are approximately 80 dwellings, all served by wells and springs,” he said. In addition, within that radius is an older abandoned landfill. “The full impact of the groundwater contamination from that Gandfill) has yet to be realized.” No testing or monitoring is being done on that older site, and with the county’s “financial instability,” both present and future, “I don’t think we’re going to be seeing a whole lot of testing done (on the Stover tract),” Mr. Frazier said.
He challenged the consultant’s findings of soil depths on the Stover tract. Telling the supervisors that he and many of his neighbors had to dynamite before they could put in basements, he called the Stover tract “an extremely rare piece of property if it has 27 feet to bedrock” and maintained that the land would be valued far higher than $2,000 an acre if this was the case.
Dreams shattered; bounds overstepped
Speaking of the people living near the proposed dump site, Mr. Frazier said, “All their hopes and dreams could be shattered by a contaminated well. Can we put a value on human life? No!” he said, asking tha supervisors to locate a landfill in a less populated area.
Mr. Frazier lambasted The Rappahannock News for its editorial endorsing the findings of the site selection committee. “You’ve overstepped your bounds again,” he told the reporter at Wednesday’s hearing. “You’re setting public policy.”
And after reading the opinion column aloud in its, entirety, he maintained “the only reason this editorial was printed ifc.; because we have no political heavyweights in Jackson District,” referring to new board member Alvin Henry who was
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