RICHMOND — Town Council President B. Joe Reddish III and Councilman Henry R. Oppenheimer plan to visit the site of an illegal stump dump today to check if the owner is complying with a consent order reached last month.

Under the order, the property owner, Richard Romanoff, was to set up a grinder on site within 21 days of the consent order agreement and start grinding the tree stumps “immediately after the grinder is set up.”

It is unclear if the grinding has begun.

As of last Wednesday, when Oppenheimer and Terrence Gray –– the state Department of Environmental Management’s assistant director for air, waste and compliance –– visited the site, a grinder was on site but Romanoff said he was waiting for fuel to be delivered.

Romanoff is yet to provide the make and model of the grinder to the town, or information on pesticide treatments.

Town Solicitor Karen R. Ellsworth said that yesterday she e-mailed Romanoff’s lawyer, Barbara E. Grady, a list of questions that Romanoff is yet to answer. Among the questions:

• Where the wood chips will be taken.

• Whether fuel will be stored on site, and if so, how much, where and how.

• Whether silt fencing has been installed to prevent erosion.

Ellsworth said she also e-mailed Grady a draft of the required weekly report form.

Last night council members and residents who live near the stump dump expressed concern and frustration over whether the consent had been violated.

“From my perspective, the only thing that’s been mined and maintained was 50 to 100 cubic yards of loom [sandy soil],” said Wayne Stoner, the neighbor closest to the stump dump.

“It appears that there is more work being done with the profitable loom than with the lousy grinder,” Stoner said, adding he presumed Romanoff intended to sell the soil.

“I don’t understand why we are going to let him process topsoil off that property only to have it brought back again,” he said.

“Yes, we are concerned about that too,” Ellsworth told Stoner, “but we are not there yet.”

At this point, Ellsworth said, no decision has been made on what will be done with the loom. But Ellsworth said the town would ask for a provision to “restore the slopes to prevent erosion” to be included on any final consent order, “and that is going to require topsoil.”

ALSO LAST NIGHT, the council unanimously approved a memorandum of understanding with the Chariho Regional School District over the school resource officer, just in time for the officer to be posted when school starts on Sept. 2.

The School Committee had approved the agreement hours earlier.

Town and district officials had disagreed over proposed wording allowing the district to pull out of the agreement if it was unsatisfied with the officer’s behavior or performance, potentially leaving Richmond alone to pay the officers’ salary.

The final wording allows Chariho to terminate the agreement by giving Richmond “nine days’ advance written notice” and “upon showing of good cause” and gives Richmond 20 days to correct the problem, “including permitting Richmond to provide an alternative SRO [school resource officer].”

Chariho created the school resource officer position in 2003 through a federal grant that paid 75 percent of the officer’s contract for three years. Currently, the district pays 67 percent of the salary and remaining benefits and Richmond pays 33 percent. The distribution is based on the portion of the officer’s work time spent on school district duties.

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