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Article: BAD NEWS FOR GILES COUNTY [Corrected 06/12/08]
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- February 8, 2008
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There's bad news and good news -- and then some more bad news --
for opponents of a project to dump fly ash on the banks of the New
River in Giles County.
The first bad news is the death of a House bill that would have
required liners and monitoring wells for fly ash dumps in flood
plains -- even those used as fill for a construction project like
the one in Giles.
The good news is that a similar bill in the Senate passed a
committee vote.
The other bad news is that the bill was amended before it passed
committee: It would apply only to projects proposed after July 1.
In other words, Giles County residents concerned about the fill
will be getting no help from the General Assembly.
That's ...