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Residents urge enforcement, stop-work order over alleged Riverstone Solar permit violations
Summary
Multiple Buckingham County residents told the Board of Supervisors that Riverstone Solar is violating its special-use permit—removing required vegetative buffers, failing to install mandated wash stations and using roads the permit restricts—and asked the board to issue immediate enforcement actions including a stop-work order.
Multiple Buckingham County residents told the Board of Supervisors that Riverstone Solar (Apex/Riverstone) is violating conditions of its special-use permit and urged immediate enforcement, including a stop-work order.
At the meeting, Jenny Pickens (District 6) said she and other neighbors documented missing wash stations at project entrances, removal of mature vegetative buffers required by permit condition 13, and construction traffic on prohibited routes. "This board and our community relied on these specific assurances," Pickens said, describing the buffers as necessary to protect water quality near the James River.
Ruth Aldridge (District 6) told the board the 2,000-acre project sits less than a quarter-mile from the James River and that streams and wetlands on the site flow into the river. She…
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