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lity for protecting health and the environment “is going to eliminate certain areas for landfilling, period,” he continued. As to the extent of those area, “the only way to tell is through soil borings.”
The additional geotechnical work submitted with the redesign plans by Joyce Engineering after the discovery of rock does not give a clear indication of how much of the rest of the site can be used for landfilling, Mr. Wright said. Those seismic studies intended to gauge the potential for disposal area beyond the 3.6 acres in phase I provided only “a minimal amount of information,” he said.
The technical services chief ducked the question of whether development of a landfill on the Stover tract, given its already obvious limitations, is economically feasible. “That’s a good question,” he said, adding that the issue of economics has been raised repeatedly by the citizens’ group and Mr. Silverman. But the Department of Waste Management “can’t get involved in the land use planning and zoning, and the economics” of a proposed site, Mr. Wright emphasized. “If we had
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