Trash talk: Landfill has no deficiencies

The Prince Edward County Solid Waste Department’s general manager can smile even surrounded by garbage. That’s because Jeffrey Jones and his crews nailed three inspections from health officials so far this year. Jones updated county supervisors recently at their monthly meeting, telling them that Virginia Department of Health officials couldn’t find any offenses to report. “We had one about two weeks ago. No deficiencies. The last inspection he did, we had to ride around twice just so he could make a comment, to have to find something. We had to ride around twice,” he said. “My guys have been doing a very good job of keeping everything cleaned up, compacting, covering trash, moving dirt.” Jones gave supervisors information about a fire that occurred a few weeks ago at the landfill. “A truck got there before we opened and the trash was on fire in the back of the truck. So, of course, they dumped it in the road,” he said.

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