Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 5, 1992 TAG: 9203050440
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-8 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: CHARLES STEBBINS
DATELINE: NEW CASTLE LENGTH: Medium
The county Board of Supervisors decided Monday to have a new study made to determine if the county could afford to keep the landfill in this day of strict environmental standards.
Zane M. Jones, board chairman, said he thinks operating the landfill would be cheaper in the long run than building and running a transfer station and trucking trash into a regional landfill in another county.
The supervisors voted for a new cost study after County Administrator Richard C. Flora told them that governing officials now believe the cost of operating a landfill under new environmentally inspired regulations is cheaper than the generally accepted figure of $1 million an acre. The regulations, being phased in, are designed to reduce or eliminate pollution from landfills.
Flora said a more detailed cost estimate is needed to get a better idea of what it might cost Craig to continue to operate the landfill. The study will be done by the Roanoke engineering firm of Mattern & Craig.
Under federal environmental regulations, localities must meet tight procedures in landfill operations by the end of 1993 or close them. As a result, some localities are considering joining with their larger neighbors in regional landfills.
On another matter, the supervisors accepted the resignation of Richard A. Watson Jr. from the county's Planning Commission. Watson, a fiber-optics engineer, has accepted a new job in North Carolina.
The supervisors also learned that March 24 is the date for the 1992 spring pre-allocation hearing for interstate, primary and urban highways for the district that includes Craig. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. in the Virginia Department of Transportation's Salem District Office in Salem. -
by CNB