Landfill fined for accepting hazardous waste
Dover-New Philadelphia Times-Reporter
Thursday, November 10, 2005
American Landfill Inc. has agreed to pay a $5,000 civil penalty as a settlement for accepting hazardous waste at its Waynesburg landfill.
In March and May 2005, the landfill at 7916 Chapel St. SE, unknowingly accepted and disposed of 40 cubic yards of hazardous wastewater treatment sludge filter cake. Hazardous waste is not allowed in municipal solid waste landfills.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency discovered the problem in June 2005 when it inspected City Plating in Cleveland – the company generating the waste.
Jerry Ross, district manager of American Landfill, said Wednesday that his company did not accept anything that is dangerous to the community.
“I guess the situation is we did in fact accept a waste stream and that is in violation of state regulations,” Ross said. “Again, it’s not something dangerous to the community, it’s just something that came in and was unacceptable.”
Ross said the documentation that the landfill received did not match with the waste that was actually disposed.
The OEPA press release said that American Landfill was not aware that City Plating changed its electroplating process prior to the problem being discovered by the OEPA.
Due to the elapsed time and the physical state of the filter cake, the landfill was unable to locate and remove the 40 cubic yards of disposed hazardous waste.
American Landfill no longer accepts waste from City Plating.
City Plating was cited for failing to manage and properly dispose of hazardous waste. In addition, the Stark County Health Department, the primary landfill enforcement agency in the county and the OEPA cited American landfill for accepting and disposing of the waste.
American will pay $5,000 to OEPA’s environmental protection remediation fund. To prevent future occurrences of this kind., American also will evaluate and revise the landfill’s hazardous waste prevention and detection program.
The company’s revised program will be submitted to the OEPA for review and comment.
Thursday, November 10, 2005
American Landfill Inc. has agreed to pay a $5,000 civil penalty as a settlement for accepting hazardous waste at its Waynesburg landfill.
In March and May 2005, the landfill at 7916 Chapel St. SE, unknowingly accepted and disposed of 40 cubic yards of hazardous wastewater treatment sludge filter cake. Hazardous waste is not allowed in municipal solid waste landfills.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency discovered the problem in June 2005 when it inspected City Plating in Cleveland – the company generating the waste.
Jerry Ross, district manager of American Landfill, said Wednesday that his company did not accept anything that is dangerous to the community.
“I guess the situation is we did in fact accept a waste stream and that is in violation of state regulations,” Ross said. “Again, it’s not something dangerous to the community, it’s just something that came in and was unacceptable.”
Ross said the documentation that the landfill received did not match with the waste that was actually disposed.
The OEPA press release said that American Landfill was not aware that City Plating changed its electroplating process prior to the problem being discovered by the OEPA.
Due to the elapsed time and the physical state of the filter cake, the landfill was unable to locate and remove the 40 cubic yards of disposed hazardous waste.
American Landfill no longer accepts waste from City Plating.
City Plating was cited for failing to manage and properly dispose of hazardous waste. In addition, the Stark County Health Department, the primary landfill enforcement agency in the county and the OEPA cited American landfill for accepting and disposing of the waste.
American will pay $5,000 to OEPA’s environmental protection remediation fund. To prevent future occurrences of this kind., American also will evaluate and revise the landfill’s hazardous waste prevention and detection program.
The company’s revised program will be submitted to the OEPA for review and comment.
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