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IIU £U<1I ctlllt't Ultse liners (for the garbage trenches) will last forever,” said Bobby Carter. “All this contamination sitting on top of the water coming to our wells - it’s not reasonable.”
Mr. Carter also attacked the engineering report, maintaining that the area has more wells than the 55 cited in the geotechnical study.
Charging that the county has “not yet researched the liability and repercussions” of locating a landfill on the Stover property, Nancy Dishner said that enactment of the Comprehensive Plan amendment calling for a solid waste disposal facility there would be “poor planning if not negligent action.”
Hugh Green predicted that local taxes will have to be raised dramatically to pay for development of the Stover tract as a county landfill. “It’s not just the voters of Jackson District you’ll be held accountable to,” he warned the supervisors.
Jim Woodward repeated his request for an environmental study of the area, noting that at an earlier hearing on the landfill proposal, he had invited the supervisors “to walk the streams and see the beaver dams,” but that none of the five had taken him up on his offer.
“I can’t understand putting in a landfill within a mile and a quarter of the Rappahannock River,” said C. D. Green, adding that if the solid waste disposal facility goes on the Stover tract, “long down the line, you’ll have a lawsuit.”
Beverly Hunter called on the supervisors to explore recycling programs, special collections of household hazardous wastes and other innovative answers to the trash question. r.- ■- ■ ^ ' =
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