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existing landfill, that of remediating three farm ponds in the neighbor hood. A request for $10,000 in damages from the owner of one pond appeared on the supervisors’ agenda last week, but was tabled so that ij£ of the requests could be consider^ together.
The sedimentation of the ponds “happened about two years ago* when we first had [an eight-acre portion of the landfill] capped,” Binjfham explained. “What happened £$ right after we capped it we had somjj| 25-year rains. The erosion control fa* cility ... has to be designed for a 24k hour, 25-year rain. The seed hadnSE taken hold, nothing had starts growing yet,” he said. "
Bingham said that effective ert£ sion and sedimentation controls havo subsequently been put in place, an3 that siltation of surrounding far® ponds should no longer be a prolg lem. -- -
Changes in the new landfill ds» sign, some to save a grove of oaklj and others to re-route traffic into thfi facility, have also come under fire (|J late, but Bingham refuses tq lay thg blame, as others are inclined to doe at the feet of consultant Drapes Aden Associates. *?
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