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NOVEMBER 15, 2017 XX NO.11

Village News

Building a walking, safe community

ECOFF AVENUE

ECOFF AVENUE WILL HAVE SIDEWALKS FROM KEN DRIVE TO IVYWOOD ROAD. FOR SPACE SOME OF THE CENTER OF THE MAP HAS BEEN LEFT OUT. THE DESCRIPTION IN THE
ARTICLE MAKES IT CLEARER. SIDEWALK, CURB AND GUTTER, BETTER DRAINAGE, WIDENING OF THE ROAD.
BY MARK FAUSZ
sidewalk is being added to School. Ken Drive. The project includes minor The concept graphic shows the
Ecoff Avenue along with The Chesterfield transportation widening of the travel lanes from ten sidewalk switching from the south side
A upgrades that will make it more department has developed 60 percent of feet to 11 and constructing a two-foot to the north side of the road where the
pedestrian friendly and safer for drivers. the plans and scheduled the meeting. paved shoulder on the non-sidewalk crosswalk is shown. The crosswalk has
There will be an informal meeting but They evaluated various typical side of the road. Two stormwater basins since been moved to just west of that
no formal presentation draft plans will sections and determined the least are on the project, and the department entrance, but this gives a sense of the
be available for review and staff will be disrupted was to construct sidewalk will be improving two vertical curves overall project.
on hand to field questions. The Citizen with curb and gutter on the south side within the corridor. Chesterfield The general schedule is as follows:
Information Meeting will take place from Ivywood Road to just west of transportation has been meeting with Engineering, is on-going; Right of
Wednesday, December 6, 2017 from the western school entrance and on impacted property owners and received Way and Utilities, Spring 2018 and
5 p.m to 7 p.m. at Ecoff Elementary the north side from that entrance to good feedback about the project. Construction, Spring 2019.

Dominion Energy covering their ash with

clay not water

BY MARK FAUSZ ash ponds at the Chesterfield plant that
Dominion Energy is changing the has been in existence since 1945.
way it handles flyash, a byproduct of “It has been a long complicated
burning coal. The power company, as of process converting from a wet to a dry
Monday began exercising its Virginia process,” said Bermuda District and
Department of Environmental Quality Chairman of the Chesterfield Board of
permit to depose of flyash. Supervisors, Dorothy Jaeckle. “It took
The plan calls for the dewatering years of permitting and testing to meet
of the ash that is currently in the ponds all the requirements including building a
on the site, and any new fly ash will be bridge. I believe the cost was somewhere
will be buried in a lined landfill on the in the neighborhood of 20 million
Dominion property. The dry ash will dollars. Despite its cost, the new system
behauled across a 1,400 foot bridge that will be better for all of us.”
Dominion built just for the purpose of The dewatering process is expected
hauling to the landfill. The path to the to take approximately 18 months. Robert
beginning of the cleanup and the new Richardson, Community Relations
disposal technique took about 18 months Manager with Dominion Energy expects
for the State Water Control Board’s THE FILTERING SYSTEM FOR THE DEWATERING PROCESS. FILTERS (IN THE BACKGROUND) MUCH
LIKE A POOL FILTER REMOVE TOXIC PARTICLES, THEN CHEMICALS ARE THEN ADDED TO CLEAN
decision to approve the DEQ’s permit of Read more on page 3 THE WATER FURTHER BEFORE IT IS TESTED AND PUT IN THE RIVER.
Dominion’s plan of cleaning up the fly
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