
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, June 9, 1990                   TAG: 9006090352
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Mary Bishop
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

KIM-STAN FILES APPEAL NOTICE

The Kim-Stan landfill has filed a legal document that would allow it to go into court to try to regain its state operating permit.

The notice of appeal does not assure that the company will go through with an appeal. "We're not sure," Kim Stan attorney Joe Roberts said Friday.

To do so, however, he was required to file the notice with the state Department of Waste Management by June 7 - a month after department Director Cynthia Bailey ordered Kim-Stan's permit revoked.

Kim-Stan now has until July 4 to file an appeal.

An Alleghany County judge, citing numerous violations of Virginia environmental laws, closed the private dump west of Clifton Forge on May 10.

This week, State Water Control Board investigators found 15 to 20 dead fish in Simpson Creek near a truck stop used by drivers who brought garbage to Kim-Stan.

Neal Obenshain, acting director of the board's regional office in Roanoke, said his office received information that garbage trucks were cleaned at the Ponderosa Truck Stop, but he did not know if runoff had any role in the fish kill.

by CNB