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The land on which the Murat Solid Waste and Recycling Collection Center sits is being purchased by Rockbridge County so that improvements, including an expansion of the facility, can proceed.
The Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 Monday, April 24, to exercise an option on purchasing the 1.68-acre parcel on the west side of Murat Road (Va. 675), just north of the intersection with Collierstown Road (Va. 251). The purchase price for the land was $30,000.
“We’ve been working for this a long time,” said Kerrs Creek Supervisor Dan Lyons, who made the motion to exercise an option taken out by the county this past December.
Plans are moving forward to upgrade the staffed collection center so that it is on the scale of the county’s other such centers at Natural Bridge Station, Fancy Hill, Kerrs Creek, Fairfield and Goshen and off of Greenhouse Road just outside of Lexington.
Establishing full-service staffed collections centers throughout the county to replace unmanned Dumpster sites has long been a goal of the county’s strategic solid waste plan. The objective is to enable the county to better control its solid waste stream and to provide citizens better service.
Funding for the upgrade of the Murat center has been budgeted for a couple of years. Future new collection centers are planned for the Walkers Creek/ Rockbridge Baths, South River and Forge Road areas. Specific sites for these future centers have not yet been selected.
