Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, October 26, 1993 TAG: 9310260047
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B8 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: CATHRYN MCCUE STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The company will present a proposal to the county's Board of Supervisors on Jan. 14, said Ross Jeffries, vice president of corporate development. The board voted unanimously Monday to give Boxley & Co. three months to come up with the proposal.
Jeffries said the company is extracting granite from the quarry off U.S. 220 in Fieldale. The quarry has several years worth of granite remaining, he said.
Members of a joint landfill siting committee of Martinsville and Henry County approached the stone company about the possibility, Jeffries said.
It is unclear who would have ownership and control of the potential landfill, or whether garbage from outside the localities would be buried there.
"We really don't know if it'll all shake out yet," Jeffries said. "If the volume isn't there, it isn't going to come to fruition."
The landfill would not take hazardous waste, he said.
Jeffries said he is not aware of any other quarry in Virginia that has been converted to a landfill, although company officials toured an abandoned lime quarry in Missouri that became a landfill.
"`It is being done. We're not initiating a new concept," he said.
Abandoned quarries often fill with water. One that Boxley closed in Henry County now is used to irrigate a golf course, Jeffries said.
Henry County Administrator Bob Lawler said the joint committee is continuing talks with the owner of another potential site near the county's current landfill.
Boxley & Co. owns and operates seven quarries in Western Virginia, including one in Blue Ridge.
by CNB