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Rappahannock News staff graphic/Lou Hatter THE COUNTY’S NEW LANDFILL is approximately one mile north of Rt. 21 L just west of the Culpeper County line on Rt. 639.
and questioning whether ground water quality could be protected, “We weren’t raising false issues,” Mr. Silverman said. Both Mr. Joyce and the Department of Waste Management should have advised the Board of Supervisors to abandon plans for a landfill on the Stover tract, according to Mr. Silverman.
"At that point, everything done to the site had only made it more valuable,”’ he maintained. The 99 acres should have been sold by the county before the land was devalued by the first load of trash. “It could have brought $1 million,” Mr. Silverman said, maintaining that the money ifilght then ha^d been used to'construct a propier landfill elsewhere.
He conceded, however, that the letter coming with the landfill permit failed to make clear the Department of Waste Management’s reservations regarding the permitting of disposal area beyond the intial 3.6 acres in phase I. “It’s clear to me there’s a problem. But it wouldn’t be clear to anybody else who wasn’t at that meeting in Richmond.”
But Berry Wright says the question of long-term use was raised in the transmittal letter with the permit sent
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