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then that information will be taken into account in determining where to eventually build a lined holding pond, Mr. Joyce explained. At full capacity, the landfill should produce “a couple thousand gallons a day.”
Mr. Joyce explained that additional site studies and computer modeling had been undertaken to predict where leachate would escape to IF it were to escape the liner and collection system.
This work prompted the addition of the fourth downgradient monitoring well. Not only will water sampling be done quarterly at those four wells and the two upgradient wells, but samples will also be taken at two surface water monitoring points — where a stream enters the property and at the confluence of two streams leaving the 100-acre tract, the engineer said.
In addition, the leachate collected in the septic tank will tested quarterly. This monitoring program will give an early indication of any changes in groundwater quality, Mr. Joyce assured the supervisors.
“It looks to me like he’s taken every conceivable precaution ... I like what I see,” acknowledged Col. Bingham, who has been a vocal critic of the proposal to put a landfill on the Stover tract and centered his campaign for election to the Board of Supervisors on that opposition. “If we have to have it where it is, we’re going to have a good start . . . But if we’re this close, we need to go a little bit further,” he maintained, noting that private wells are not shown, as suggested by the Jackson District Citizens Committee and requested by the state, on the fivemile radius map.
“As good as the design plan is, the site to me is still questionable . . . We have a moral obligation to ensure the safety of our people,” he said, calling on Mr. Joyce to also map nearby wells allegedly contaminated by two abandoned landfills, one in Rappahannock where the Amissville dumpsters are now located and the second just over the line in Culpeper County. “If we have contaminated wells on the periphery of Rappahannock, it behooves us to document those sites, particularly from a liability standpoint."
Mr. Joyce added that it will be “no problem” to show the abandoned landfills and any wells already contaminated on the design plan maps.
Mr. McCarthy maintained, however, that the Department of Waste Management’s request that private wells within a five-mile radius be mapped is unrealistic. That has not been part of other landfill permits issued in the past several months. Neither is it a requirement in the latest set of proposed landfill regulations promulgated by the department, he pointed out. “They were told yesterday that private wells were not shown on the five-mile radius map, and yesterday they said what we have would be adequate."
All residences within five miles appear, and since there is no public water supply in Amissville, it can be assumed that every house means a well. Supervisor Mike Massie noted, saying that this satisfies the spirit if not the letter of the department’s well mapping request.
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