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“we’ll know what there is to be known about conditions there,” Mr. McCarthy said.
He noted that the Board of Supervisors has rejected both blasting to remove the rock and the option of going to an area fill design with the landfill liner at ground level and the refuse built up into a “trash mountain” on top of that liner. The first would pose a threat to groundwater and the second is politically unacceptable, he explained.
If the seismic studies show the balance of the site unusable, “then clearly, we have some serious talking to do with the public and with the state,” Mr. McCarthy said, indicating that consideration would then be given to selling the Stover tract before use of the phase I trench diminishes the land’s value. “But in the absence of any bad news,” he said, development of the site into a landfill with an estimated 50-year capacity will continue. “Unless we have bad news, nothing has changed.”
In a telephnone interview on Tuesday, Berry Wright, technical services chief for the Department of Waste Management, confirmed that the department will review all changes in the proposed landfill design to ensure “health and the environment are protected ... It won’t be just a rubber stamp.”
If additional geotechnical studies now required by the department show extensive rock formations in the intended fill area and if the landfill design is significantly changed as a result, the county’s landfill permit will have to be amended. “Basically it’s a whole new permitting process,” Mr. Wright said.
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