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(2) WATERSHED: “The site should, not be situated near a major watercourse or large body of standing water. Drinking water supplies should not be endangered. ” The Stover tract has a small stream on each side and a large stream that runs down at the bottom of the hill where drilling took place for the landfill site. The site for the landfill is within a one-mile radius of 86 homes which have drilled wells and springs. These wells stand a great chance of being contaminated by seepage from the landfill pits.
(3) SOIL: “The soil should be deep and reasonably well-drained ... Limitations should be rated only slight or moderate by the soil conservation services.” Stover 'tract, according to the drill, reports the soil depth ranged from 10 feet to 27 feet and the rock is well above three streams on three sides of the landfill site in which case the seepage will run into all three of these streams.
(3) ACCESS: “All access roads should have adequate width and pavement to accommodate heavy truck traffic. The site should be close to, and easily accessible from, a primary road. ” The Stover tract is on a one-way dirt road six-tenths of a mile from Rt. 211, a four-lane highway, to the dead end of Rt. 639. I asked a supervisor what they would do about land to widen the present road and his reply was the state will offer you a price for right-of-way and if you do not accept the state will condemn the land and build the road anyway. The state, in the past, has done nothing for this road unless the people that live on it have complained for service.
From Stover’s entrance to State Route 639 there is 8,433 feet of road that has to be built through woods across one stream to the drill sites for landfill pits at the expense of the taxpayers of Rappahannock County.
(6) COST: “Purchase price, road improvements, water monitoring, landfill construction, safety measures, run-off control structures, closing and land reclamation are all costs which should be considered in selecting a landfill site.” Stover tract: The county will have to purchase 99 acres and less than half is low marsh land; no way can it be used for anything. Road improvements are going to be expensive to all taxpayers. Residents’ wells around the entire village of
(See CONCERNS, page 18)
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