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Residents and commissioners press county to limit heavy industrial access after Clap Mill landfill application
Summary
Residents and multiple speakers urged the Alamance County Board to block high-impact industrial access on narrow rural roads after a proposed LCID landfill on Clap/Clap Mill Road prompted safety, traffic and signage concerns. The board gave staff consensus direction to draft road-access restrictions.
Alamance County commissioners heard more than a half dozen public comments on Feb. 16 opposing a proposed LCID landfill and urging the county to prevent similar developments from using narrow rural roads for heavy truck access.
The first public speaker to raise the issue, Deborah Claire, told commissioners that if the permit is allowed to pass “you will be responsible for a grave disservice” to residents near Clamp Mill Road and said NCDOT engineers had identified missing speed and warning signs on the road. Other residents described projected truck volumes and safety fears; Joe Snyder said the application showed an expected 1,647…
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