Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 27, 1993 TAG: 9310270064
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-11 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By BRIAN KELLEY Staff writer
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Medium
The board settled on a contract with Laramore Construction of Danville to place a layer of soil over 11.5 acres of the landfill between Christiansburg and Blacksburg.
Laramore will also clear soil for an access road from the landfill to a portion of the former Virginia Tech horticultural farm.
The county bought the land this year to provide soil for the closure and to serve as a site for a future recycling center. Federal regulations required closure of that portion of the landfill because, unlike the majority of the operation, it has no double liner underneath it.
The bulk of the Mid-County Landfill is expected to continue to operate until 1997, as the Montgomery board continues to seek a new, regional landfill involving Christiansburg, Blacksburg and the New River Resource Authority, which operates a landfill serving Pulaski County, Radford and the towns of Pulaski and Dublin.
In other business Monday, the board:
Heard from Supervisor Larry Linkous of Blacksburg that the Virginia Department of Transportation has no plans to change the delay between green and red for the traffic lights at U.S. 460 and Toms Creek Road.
The county sent a letter to the resident highway engineer this month requesting a study of the lights' timing. Linkous brought it up in response to residents' telephone calls following a Sept. 30 accident that killed Christiansburg Elementary School teacher Emily S. Bowles.
According to information Linkous received from the engineer, the delay between the time the light turns amber on U.S. 460 and green on Toms Creek Road is 7.4 seconds. The Transportation Department believes the delay is sufficient and does not want to extend it for fear that drivers would be tempted to run it.
Linkous said Tuesday there is not much more the Board of Supervisors can do other than encourage people to be careful at the intersection.
Agreed to put up $3,750 so the state will accept Cameo Lane north of Blacksburg into the secondary road system. Because the road's developer has gone bankrupt, the county agreed to step in.
If the state does not need the money for repairs or maintenance by January 1995, it will return to the county general fund.
Approved 20 lots in the Lawrence subdivision off Virginia 8 just south of Riner and 36 lots in the Deercroft subdivision at the end of Deercroft Drive in the Blacksburg area.
Heard from Harold Wingate of Wingate Appraisal Service that the county's on-going general reassessment is approximately 10 percent complete. His firm has assessed between 2,800 and 3,000 of Montgomery's 30,000 parcels, Wingate said.
by CNB