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At special meetings held morning and night on Tuesday, engineer Leonard Joyce gave the supervisors a report on what the discovery of rock means to plans for the new landfill on the 99-acre Stover tract near Amissville. And the word was good.
Not only can the landfill be redesigned without sacrificing life expectancy or any of the work already accomplished by the contractor, but the changes may actually bring down the price on the first phase of construction, according to the consultant.
Rock was uncovered July 1 during excavation of the initial trench area. On the basis of more than 20 holes dug with a backhoe last Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, Mr. Joyce has identified the ridge as running roughly east to west at an angle across the intended fill area. “I had a geologist out there Friday,” he told the supervisors (Charles Estes and Ellis Bingham at the morning meeting; Mr. Estes, Col. Bingham, and Chairman Hubert Gilkey at the evening session). “He thinks this little ridge, this peak-and-valley effect, is likely to occur throughout the entire site,” Mr. Joyce reported, but added, “we’re not sure of that.”
The engineer said after the new holes showed the extent of the rock ridge, “I looked back, scratched my head, and asked myself, ‘Well, how did we miss this with our borings?”’
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