The Rockbridge County Planning Commission on March 11 reviewed a site plan for a proposed trash and recycling collection center that is to serve the South River/Mountain View community. Dan Miear, the county’s solid waste and recycling manager, presented the plan.
The staffed collection center is to be developed on a tract of land purchased by the county in 2024 that is located on the east side of Old Buena Vista Road (Va. 631), .38-of-a-mile southeast of the intersection with South River Road (Va. 608). The property, just east of the railroad tracks and up the road from Mountain View Elementary School, consists of 24.971 acres. The land is zoned general industrial (I-1).
Under the county’s current solid waste plan, the proposed collection center will replace four existing unstaffed Dumpster sites – two along South River Road, one at Timber Ridge on the west side of North Lee Highway and one on the south side of Old Buena Vista Road, near the intersection with Mountain View Road (Va. 705) These unstaffed collection centers are to be removed upon the completion of the South River Collection Center. Then, there will be only four unstaffed Dumpster sites remaining in the county. The staffed collection centers are open Mondays through Saturdays, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sundays, 1 to 6 p.m.
The county has for years had a solid waste plan that called for eventually replacing all of its unmanned Dumpster sites with manned collection centers. The objective is to better control the county’s solid waste disposal/recycling stream. Such centers are currently in place in Natural Bridge Station, Fancy Hill, Murat, Greenhouse Road, Fairfield and Goshen.
Future plans include developing two more collection centers – one in the northwest quadrant of the county (Brownsburg/Walkers Creek area) and one in the Forge Road area west of Buena Vista.
