Virginia contractor to pay for dumping asbestos debris described as regular soil fill

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality testing has confirmed that debris from a Navy housing construction site in Newport News, dumped at a Suffolk landfill by a contractor who said it was regular soil fill, contained asbestos. The contractor, who mischaracterized and did not correctly identify the material being dumped, most likely will not be fined because the necessary proof of wrongdoing may not be sufficient. But Cinter Construction Co. Inc. of Williamsburg will have to pay the landf