State environmental regulators are raising concerns about a lack of erosion control at the construction site of an industrial shell building in Botetourt County.
The nearly finished building sits on land that was once the Greenfield Plantation — and where controversy erupted last year when two historic slave buildings were moved from the hill to make room for the economic development project.
An April 5 inspection by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality found that grading on the 22-acre site had not been followed up with sufficient stabilization work, which can include planting grass, spreading straw and building sediment traps.
“There are adjacent wetlands, a stream, and a pond directly below/adjacent to slopes and a very large drainage area that drains toward the wetlands,” the report stated.
