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Albemarle County is investigating two new potentially illegal dump sites. This comes on the heels of Crown Orchards being called out publicly for the nearly-acre of trash piled up on its land.
One of the new sites is on the Property of Crown Orchard near Batesville. The other is on Johnson Purvis Lane in Covesville and appears to be connected to Crown Orchard.
"County zoning officials have been on one of the sites. They have not been on the other site," said Albemarle County Spokesperson Lee Catlin.
On April 14, Albemarle County was made aware of the first situation. Last week Crown Orchard, owned by Henry Chiles, was served with two violations for breaking county zoning rules and illegally disposing of garbage.
"We continue to work with the property owner of the voluntary clean up of the site," said Catlin.
The new site located on Crown Orchard property is less than a mile from the first dump site. According to Albemarle County, neither of the new sites are as large as the first.
"The site that they have been able to access of the two that are currently under investigation are not of the magnitude of the first one," said Catlin.
The Piedmont Environmental Council says these kinds of discoveries may become more common.
"In one way I was sort of not surprised," said Jeff Werner, a land use field officer for the PEC.
As more people move to the rural area, Werner says it isn't as easy to keep secrets.
"You see these old farms broken up and divided people are going to find them," said Werner.
In all three of these cases the properties are connected to the same family. But the PEC says there are lots of other illegal dumps still left to be found.
We continue to ask Mr. Chiles to explain the dump sites. Our phone calls have not yet been returned.
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