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here. People have been dumping here for years, and it’s time.it was stopped.”
Mr. Harris has called for volunteers to join him for another all-out effort from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday. “I don’t want us to leave the job unfinished,” he said.
“There is still plenty people can do,” he added. He estimated that between two-thirds and three-fourths of the work is done. The side of the road nearest the houses in Chester Gap is the area with the most trash remaining.
Mr. Harris said the area along the river is cleaned up to 50 feet below the falls. However, he is concerned that more trash may be buried under the road itself with water leaching through it under the road. He said he would like the Health Department to test the water to see if it is being contaminated.
On the way out, Mr. Harris and another volunteer stopped and spoke with Anderson and Jean North, who have lived near the entrance to the waterfall area since the 1960s.
They supported Mr. Harris’s plan to put a locked gate just beyond the last house on the public road. Visitors on foot would be able to go around the gate and walk for a quarter mile to get to the site, but the trucks bearing debris would no longer be able to scurry unseen to the secluded place to dump.
“We hear them (the trucks) coming and going all night long,” said Mrs. North. “I worry about the people downstream, who need this water for their wells and fields. Who knows what’s in it?
Mr. Harris said he feels many people in Chester Gap did not believe it would be possible to clean the area up. “I think they are grateful we initiated this.”
He would like the citizens of Chester Gap to help patrol the area and report violations to the Sheriffs Office.
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