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By LOU HATTER
WMjihnmotfc N«wi Staff Writer
About 80 Amissville residents attended a meeting at the Amissville Fire Hall last Thursday night to formulate a plan in opposition to the county’s proposal to locate its new landfill on a 100-acre tract off Rt. 639 east of the village.
Led by Lorraine and John Early, Col. Ellis Bingham and Bobby Carter, representing the Citizens for Jackson District committee, the group discussed at length the effects they felt the landfill will have.
Mrs. Early read a prepared statement, recounting the events to date, before opening the meeting to comments from the floor. “The supervisors have said we must be out of the present site by July 1, which is true according to the present owner. The state would extend the permit if asked . .. there are three to five more usable acres ... if that were done, it would give us more time to find a better site.”
Col. Bingham, she continued, gave the supervisors an opportunity, in a meeting held on April 23, to pursue the idea of a regional waste disposal facility; but the board said they are not interested in a regional site at this time. “If we find a site they will test it,” she added.
Letters and photographs of the Stover tract have been sent to a number of state and federal officials, she said, including Rep. D. French Slaughter Jr., State Senator Kevin Miller, Delegate Andy Guest, U. S. Senator John Warner, and Harry Gregori of the Division of Solid Waste Managment in Richmond.
Mrs. Early said Mr. Gregori has told the supervisors that the county’s application will be processed as quickly as possible, but that no shortcuts will be taken. The state, she told the group, is totally in charge of the acceptance of the landfill application.
She informed the group that Col. Bingham had met with Leonard Miller, a Washington, D. C. lawyer specializing in environmental cases, and that he is interested in handling the case for the citizens’ opposition. Mr. Miller is with the firm of Swindler and Berlin.
Mr. Miller told Col. Bingham that a good fight is possible, she said, especially at this time because an environmental impact statement has not yet been filed with the state. To fight the application, she added, is less costly than to fight the landfill.
She said that it may also be possible to force the county to agree to stipulations about the landfill, if it is located on the Stover tract. These stipulations, she said, might include copies of all technical data to be independently verified, testing of groundwater in the area, restriction of tha type of waste to be deposited (including sludge), and possibly shortening the planned 25 to 60 year lifespan of the landfill.
“Mr. Miller will come and'walk the site,” Mrs. Early continued, “but we need to know about support — we need to know about dollars.” She added that Frances Semones has pledges amounting to about $2,000, and that
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