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By March, the Board of Supervisors had learned that the site would cost about $500,000, and the Concerned Citizens of Jackson District, who opposed the landfill site, had gone to the state for help in their effort to stop the new dump.
As the year continued, the county and the Concerned Citizens waged a “paper war” with the Division of Waste Management in Richmond, as the citizens’ group lobbied against the landfill and the county, through its consulting firm, Joyce Engineering, maintaining that the site was safe.
Finally, as construction got under way during the summer, excavating was halted after a ridge of rock was discovered. That rock was not found by the seismic studies done by Joyce Engineering and its subcontractors.
That discovery prompted a flurry of requests from Richmond to the county for more information about the subsurface features at the site.
By September, however, Joyce Engineering had proposed that the design be altered from a trench fill to an area fill, with garbage piled on top of a liner instead of buried in trenches.
Mr. Joyce estimated that, depending on the final elevation, the county could expect a life of 35 to 60 years at the site. The varying estimate was based on current waste volumes and depended on the final elevation of the fill area.
After surviving several extensions of the agreement
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