Stump dump

Stump dump

application

withdrawn

By SHARON KILPATRICK

KapnahannocfcNewa.8*Writer .

F. Glenn Frazier withdrew his application for a stump dump at the site of a former quarry on Route 647 just north of Flint Hill when it encountered heavy opposition at the Planning Commission meeting last Wednesday.

County Administrator John McCarthy told the planners he had received the site plan the previous Monday. After reviewing it, he had told Mr. Frazier it had “deficiencies.” Mr. McCarthy told the planners there was additional engineering information he would request.

Glenn Frazier said he would speak for the application on his father’s behalf. “This is not a trash landfill; it’s just tree stumps, no trash whatsoever,” he said.

Peggy Ralph led off for the opponents. She said she lived on Route 647 near where the dump would be located. “There was an application in 1986 when Mr. Gentry owned the property,” she said. “My concerns now are the same as they were then. Route 647 is a curvy, narrow road with hidden driveways. The traffic is worse and worse. There have been several serious accidents. It’s a residential area close to a village. The state is going to designate the road as part of the scenic byway system. ”

Mrs. Ralph said her other concern was control over what is dumped in the abandoned quarry. “What assurances do we have that it’s only debris and not some hazardous material?” Mrs. Ralph said that Mr. Frazier’s application said he was doing this because his neighbors had requested it and that some of the people who had opposed the earlier application were “no longer around. I’m a neighbor. I’m still around, and I’m still opposed to it.”

After hearing Mrs. Ralph, Mr. Frazier decided to speak on his own behalf. “My neighbors are pushing me to finish it (Tilling in the hole left by the quarry),” he said. “It’s beyond my means to finish it any other way.”

See STUMPS, p. 12