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In addition, he reiterated the concern expressed by the Citizens Committee's engineer. Timothy Saylor of Buchart-Home, regarding the adequacy of soil for daily cover, intermediate cover, and final cap.
Also, he said, two test pits per acre should be dug and the soil samples analyzed in a lab for particle size, clay content, density, and rock content to ensure that the proper type of soil is available to put on top of the liner as a cushion against tears and to later cover the filled trenches with a final impermeable cap.
Mr. Silverman also maintained there's “not sufficient evidence that the engineer understands the underground water system" on the Stover tract. If French drains are to be installed underneath the leachate collection pond with those drains to empty into a tank where the water can be monitored in an early warning system for leaks in the leachate pond's liner, then additional groundwater studies must be undertaken at least to determine how big that tank must be to contain the runoff, he told the supervisors.
Virginia’s new landfill regulatorv program is one of "consensus, geniality, and graciousness," said Mr. Silverman, adding that in a telephone conversation earlier Monday morning, the Department of Solid Waste Management's chief of technical services had said he “doesn’t want to do anything the Board of Supervisors won’t be gratified by.
“That’s the word he used - gratified,” the environmental consultant said, maintaining that the state’s watchdog agency should adopt a tougher stance in its job of overseeing landfill development.
According to Mr. Silverman, this leaving it up to the county on how and if to proceed with the development of the Stover tract as a landfill puts the Rappahannock board in a difficult position, should the solid waste disposal facility be “washed out" or should costs run substantially over what is anticipated. The board could complain to the engineer, “and he’ll say 'I did what the state told me to do,' and the state will say ‘It was your decision.’ You’ll go round in a circh* without any clear responsibility ... If anything goes wrong, you’ll have a very hard time pinning the responsibility on anybody but yourselves," he cautioned the supervisors.
“You’re going into unknowns here,” Mr. Silverman warned. “Start looking elsewhere (for another landfill site), or at least start thinking about the process of looking elsewhere." He also suggested seeking a second evaluation of the Stover tract for landfilling purposes from an independent geologist while the board “makes haste slowly with the additional geotechnical work” required by the state. "You don’t have any insurance but caution.”
“We were right the first time to ask for more testing,” added Lorraine Early, president and founder of the Jackson District Citizens Committee. And that testing will
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