Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
b. Review of previous actions by the governing boards regarding consideration of 713 <br />potential landfill sites <br />c. Demographic and socio-economic information submitted in accord with State law <br />Gayle Wilson said that this hearing was being held in compliance with state statutes <br />pertaining to municipal and county regulations concerning the siting of a landfill within one mile of an <br />existing landfill site. He also said that statutes require that socioeconomic and demographic' data be <br />presented for alternative possible landfill sites. This information was prepared by Planner Robert Wilson. <br />3. PRESENTATION BY OWNERS OF PROPERTY UNDER CONSIDERATION AS A POTENTIAL <br />LANDFILL SITE <br />a. Site Orange County-2 near Cane Creek and North Carolina 54 <br />b. Site Orange County-9 near Highway 57 and Phelps Road <br />C. Site Orange County-11 near New Sharon Church and Miller Roads <br />d. Site Orange County-17 near Eubanks Road <br />Chapel Hill Town Attorney Ralph Karpinos clarified that the intent of the hearing was to receive <br />comments from property owners who's property might be taken as a result of landfill siting. There were no <br />people wishing to speak on sites two, nine or eleven. ' .. <br />Frank Emory, representing Duke University, said that it appears that the greatest number of <br />impoverished persons live near site 17 as compared to the three other potential sites. He believes that the <br />conclusions reached in the staff s report regarding socioeconomic and demographic conditions were <br />inaccurate. He urged the govemments in Orange County not to site the landfill on site 17. He expressed <br />a concern about the potential for groundwater contamination.. He requested that the local governments <br />find a place other than site 17 for disposing of the community's garbage. <br />B. B. Olive said he spoke for hundreds of Orange County residents when expressing his <br />objections to this evening's public hearing. He expressed his concern that options other than landfilling <br />had been eliminated. He pleaded with local elected officials to direct their time and attention to the <br />question of how Orange County's solid waste should be processed. He placed a petition at the table this <br />evening signed by thirty-nine Orange County residents requesting that local elected officials examine <br />options other than a landfill. <br />Cornelius Kirschner, a resident of Mill House Road, said that well water at a number of homes in <br />the area was contaminated by two manmade pollutants only present at industrial and landfill sites. He <br />also said that he could not presently sell his home due to its proximity to the existing and proposed <br />landfills. He urged local elected officials not to open the existing landfill for mining and to not site a landfill <br />in this location. <br />Linda Carver asked that the elected officials be responsive to the concerns of area residents by <br />not siting a proposed new landfill in their neighborhood. <br />Jean Barr said that this public hearing did not satisfy the law since many interested participants <br />were out of town due to the summer holidays. She also said that information pertaining to this evenings <br />hearing was not available for public review until Monday, June 17th at about 3:00 p.m. at the Chapel Hill <br />Public Library. <br />Kathy Schinley, owner of a home adjacent to site seventeen, asked why all county residents had <br />not been notified of the hearing. She stated that the Eubanks Road area had been the site of the <br />County's landfill for twenty-four years and urged the elected officials to not consider site seventeen as a <br />possible landfill site.