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It wasn’t pay dirt but rock that the contractor hit last Thursday at the site of Rappahannock’s first county-owned and operated landfill.
According to county Administrator John McCarthy, the supervisors were notified immediately and decided individually to visit the Stover tract Friday and see for themselves. Also at this informal gathering, they apparently decided to eliminate extensive blasting as an option for removing the rock and keeping the first disposal trenches in the location shown on the design plans which are a part of the landfill permit issued by the Virginia Department of Waste Management.
This week, consultant Leonard Joyce has a backhoe at the Stover tract, digging exploratory holes on a 50-foot grid pattern to determine the extent of the rock in the planned fill area. Once he has that information, expected by late Wednesday, he will develop alternatives and figure costs and present the data to the supervisors at a special meeting this Friday.
And in the meantime, representatives from the Jackson District Citizens Committee let the board know that they’re monitoring developments.
“It doesn’t look like you have 20 feet of dirt, much less 50 feet,” Lorraine Early, the committee’s president and founder, told the supervisors on Tuesday, suggesting that a state geologist inspect the site again.
Engineer Leonard Joyce was at the Stover tract early Tuesday morning, Mr. McCarthy noted, adding that the engineer’s time and the use of the backhoe was coming at no cost to the county. As of 11 a.m.,
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