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Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The state’s Department of Waste Management basically accepts the plan for working around the rock uncovered recently at the 99-acre Stover tract where Rappahannock’s first county-owned and county-operated landfill is being constructed, engineer Leonard Joyce told the supervisors at a special meeting last Friday night.
According to Mr. Joyce, geologist Terry Bonine and chief of technical services Berry Wright “felt like it was a reasonable approach” to providing for waste disposal “with no sacrifice of the quality we had planned for in the original design.”
Work at the site has been at a standstill since the ridge of rock was discovered on July 1. Extensive holes dug subsequently on a grid pattern with a backhoe show the rock runs across the disposal trench for phase I of the landfill development, and both the state’s geologist and the geologist for Joyce Engineering think similar ridges may traverse the balance of the site, but possibly with a greater depth of soil overlaying the rock.
To compensate in phase I, Mr. Joyce proposed shifting the trench and building a back berm to allow the fill area to go up higher, which would provide the same 2 1/2 to 3 year refuse capacity originally envisioned, and later having the landfill operator work on leveling the rock ridge with a hoe ram so that trash can be deposited there, too. This approach, which would be permitted by the state as long as a layer of soil five feet deep is maintained between the top of the rock and the bottom of the refuse, should bring the life expectancy of phase I to five years, according to the engineer.
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