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Time to talk
It appears that the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Virginia Water Control Board are somehow not connecting with the necessary information and instructions about how to deal with the underground gasoline storage tanks found along the U.S. 211 right-of-way.
Already, the four-laning project has fallen nearly a year behind schedule. According to a timetable from VDOT Resident Engineer Robert Moore, the department now hopes to advertise for bids for the first phase of the project in January, 1991. That was supposed to be done this past April.
Officials at the Water Control Board say that they have clear procedures for removing the underground tanks and disposing of any contaminated soil discovered fh the process.
However, Mr. Moore said this week that his office is still waiting for “direction” from the Water Control Board about how much of a problem there is with the three sites identified so far — one of which is owned by VDOT.
We’re not sure what to make of the situation.
One thing seems clear, however, from the story which resulted from telephone calls made by this newspaper’s reporter: Somewhere, somehow, there seems to be a communications failure.
We hope that the responsible officials at the two departments will pick up the telephone and figure this situation out — before the project falls even farther behind schedule and ends up costing the taxpayers even more than the projected cost.
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