Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Environmental Quality
 
Board
Department of Environmental Quality
 
chapter
Small Solar Renewable Energy Projects Permit Regulation [9 VAC 15 ‑ 60]
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1/22/23  3:32 pm
Commenter: Dennis & Belva Higgs

Our Concerns over Energix Endless Caverns (both projects)
 

Here are some of our many concerns with the Energix Endless Caverns projects (both North and South):

  1. We have concerns about the groundwater, our wells being potentially contaminated, the damage already done to Smith Creek from flooding and how this could make it much worse, and how the shoulders of Mountain Valley Road are already falling into the creek.
  2. How about the runoff from the solar panels and the potential to affect the Chesapeake Watershed? Has anyone even bothered to take a look at the concerns of issues that this will cause?
  3. My land boundaries are in Smith Creek. Did anyone bother speaking to me about the extra water runoff onto my property? No
  4. What about the historical value of the one home on the South property that is historic? What about the grave sites, etc.?
  5. What evidence has been provided on the safe disposal of the panels? None. The company has stated numerous times there are recycling programs out there but refuses to offer evidence that they participate in them or have contracts that hold them to a standard at the end of the panel life.
  6. My property will not sell at the present value of taxes. This will definitely decrease the value even more.
  7. We are tired of witnessing people not properly doing their job or being bought off.
  8. They don't even bother to show up and answer questions at meetings because they don't have answers or will recite the same rhetoric with no evidence to support it.

For this and many other concerns, we request you reject the Energix Endless Caverns North and South permits and not allow them to dismantle this rural countryside.

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