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Amendment
re c ommended
By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“They just voted ‘yes’ for open mindedness,” said environmental consultant Larry Silverman, as the Rappahannock Planning Commissioners endorsed a comprehensive plan amendment which recognizes the Stover tract as a “potential” site for the county’s sanitary landfill.
But while Mr. Silverman saw cause for optimism with the inclusion of the word “potential", others who asked for the amendment to be summarily rejected left last Wednesday’s public hearing disappointed.
Opponents of the proposal for locating a solid waste disposal facility near the village of Amissville insisted that it will pose a contamination threat to private wells nearby, create a safety hazard of explosions from the methane gas produced by decomposing ■
quality of nearby streams, the Rappahannock River two miles away and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay.
In addition, they charged that the geotechnical study done on the site by Joyce Engineering is incomplete and seriously flawed.
Lorraine Early, leader of a citizens group fighting the Stover landfill proposal, maintained that the$450,000 allocated by the Board of Supervisors for the establishment of a solid waste disposal facility is insufficient. Once the cost of the land and the engineering work is deducted, $200,000 will be left, she noted. “There’s no way a site can be developed for that amount.”
The proposed ridge-top location on the 99-acre tract is “the second highest point in Amissville,” Mrs. Early said. “All the water will sink to the lowest point,” contaminating private wells in the four miles between the
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