Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, September 9, 1994 TAG: 9409090080
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: CATHRYN McCUE
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
It's a sticky issue, one to which a group of legislators has been assigned to find the answer.
The joint legislative subcommittee will hold a public hearing Oct. 4, in Clifton Forge, near the state's most infamous abandoned landfill.
The subcommittee is reviewing the appropriate role and financial responsibility the state must take, if any, to clean up abandoned solid-waste or hazardous-waste landfills.
Kim-Stan in Alleghany County now is closed, but still is oozing pollution after being run by private operators who piled tons of out-of-state trash in it for several years in the late 1980s.
Neither the state nor the county has money to clean it up and close it properly.
Del. Creigh Deeds, D-Warm Springs, is chairman of the subcommittee. Serving with him are Sen. Malfourd "Bo" Trumbo, R-Fincastle; Del. Kenneth Melvin, D-Portsmouth; Del. Kenneth Plum, D-Reston; and Sen. Madison Marye, D-Shawsville. Becky Norton Dunlop, secretary of natural resources, is an ex-officio member.
The hearing will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. at Dabney Lancaster Community College, in the Gary Lee Miller Convocation Center, on U.S. 60 in Clifton Forge.
Call (804)786-3591 for more information.
by CNB