Saturday, December 31, 2005

 

Hazardous waste mishandled


The Abbotsford News
Dec. 31, 2005

BRITISH COLUMBIA - It was supposed to be a hazardous waste recycling facility, but it was, in fact, a haphazard waste dump site.

And so, last August, men in protective hazmat suits pored through the toxic materials that the Canadian Petroleum Corporation (CPC) stored at a couple of Abbotsford industrial warehouses, cleaning up thousands of litres of explosive solvents and wastes. . . Read more

 

Ohio landfills - 2002 OEPA map

NOTE: Landfill locations can be found by matching the landfill number from this list with the corresponding numbers in the map above. As stated in the above graphic, Club 3000 modified the 2002 landfill location map to demonstrate the concentration of landfills within the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Waste District. Read more

 

OEPA grants itself another waste plan extension

Commissioner Richard Regula [] announced that the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency notified the region’s solid waste district that it is extending its deadline to complete the joint 10-year waste disposal and recycling plan to April 30. That’s a month longer than what the district verbally agreed to earlier this month and fourth months later than the state’s original deadline.

Regula wondered why the agency couldn’t use the waste district’s already finished plan. The extension allows district members more time to adopt new landfill and waste facility regulations, he said.
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Foes close landfill

By Eric Stirgus
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
12/29/05

A group of Henry County residents has won a nearly five-year battle to shut down the Brannan Landfill.

Now they want its operator to pay to clean a nearby lake.
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Judge permits First Amendment landfill lawsuit

By Liesel Nowak
Daily Progress staff writer
December 30, 2005

A federal judge has reversed his decision to dismiss a First Amendment lawsuit brought by a woman whose husband was killed in an explosion at the former Ivy Landfill. . . Read more

 

Explosive torpedoes found at landfill

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Associated Press
via Tenn. Southern Standard
Dec. 30, 2005

CENTERVILLE, TN. - Workers at the Hickman County landfill found a box full of explosives Thursday.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol bomb squad was called in to dispose of the dangerous material, which included 22 railway torpedoes.

Officials said the explosives could have easily exploded if they were accidentally run over. . . Read more

 

Odiferous landfill fined $9,000 daily

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Thurs., Dec. 29, 2005

Protesters who persuaded an East Huntingdon Township landfill to abandon plans to accept radioactive ash helped steer state inspectors toward a different concern, resulting in a $9,000 fine.

The Department of Environmental Protection issued the fine to Greenridge Reclamation for off-site odor violations at its landfill in the township, according to the state agency. . . Read more

Friday, December 30, 2005

 

Landfill closer to expanding - Times Reporter

 

Club 3000 helps rescue trapped owl at landfill

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Club 3000 inspector Dick Harvey helped rescue a Great Horned Owl Thursday morning while he performed an inspection of Republic Services' Countywide landfill at approximately 8:00 a.m.

Harvey had proceeded down a hill at the site to inspect a methane gas flare before ending his inspection. After inspecting the flare, Harvey returned up the same hill to conclude his inspection. As he and Republic Services' employee Jim Stagerwalt approached a plastic debris fence at the hill's crest, they noticed the owl tangled in the fence. . Read more

Thursday, December 29, 2005

 

Worker killed at Republic Services' Apex landfill

Authorities probing worker death at Las Vegas-area landfill

Associated Press via KRNV-TV
Dec 29, 2005, 03:40 PM EST

A worker is dead and authorities are on the scene after an apparent mishap at a Las Vegas-area landfill. . . Read more

 

Delta: Seeping landfill liquid to be inspected

By Vanessa Winans
Toledo Blade Staff Writer
Thurs., Dec. 29, 2005

DELTA - A new system to collect liquid seeping out of the old Fulton County landfill is apparently not completely effective, prompting the Ohio EPA to ask the county to step up its inspections. . . Read more

 

Ohio EPA gives prelim approval for bigger landfill

By Robert Wang
Canton Repository Staff Writer
Thurs., Dec. 29, 2005

SANDY TWP. - After about six years of review, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has granted preliminary approval of American Landfill’s plans to expand, which would allow it to take waste for at least 40 more years. . . Read more

 

Out-of-State Waste Lands in Ohio Valley











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WTRF Story by Jennifer Shoulders
Posted 12/23/2005 07:38 AM

Steubenville - Local people express their outrage over loads of out-of-state waste coming into their community.

Apex Landfill is now open on the border of Jefferson and Harrison Counties in Ohio. The landfill will now become the dumping ground for 1.8 million tons of garbage per year, with trash coming in from places like New York. [emphasis added].

The state will be receiving $3.50 for every ton of the non-hazardous waste that is shipped in. The 1200 acre facility is expected to remain open for dumping for the next 10 years.

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Mass. trash train plan for Ohio landfills delayed










New date set for NET reply

By Franklin B. Tucker
Wilmington (Mass.) Advocate Staff Writer
Thurs., Dec. 29, 2005

The Surface Transportation Board has reset by nearly a month the final date for parties to reply to New England Transrail’s filing of its new petition to build and operate a trash transfer facility at the Olin Chemical site on Eames Street in South Wilmington.

The new date for formal comments is Jan. 27, 2006. The new date replaces the earlier Dec. 26 deadline the STB set when New England Transrail filed the petition on Dec. 5. . . Read more

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

 

Casino trash trains headed to Ohio landfills?











Injunction blocks trash-transfer station in Pinelands

Weds., Dec. 28, 2005
By Lawrence Hajna
Courier-Post Staff

Camden, NJ - A federal judge has granted the state's request for an injunction halting development of a proposed casino trash-transfer station in the Pinelands National Reserve, saying doing so is consistent with a congressional mandate to protect the region.

"Today is a great day for the environment and New Jersey residents," acting Gov. Richard J. Codey said in a statement released Tuesday. "By ignoring Pine-land Commission rules this facility would jeopardize public health and the ecologically sensitive environment of the Pinelands."

But an attorney for Egg Harbor Township-based Magic Disposal Inc., a firm that wants to haul trash from several Atlantic City casinos to the transfer station, downplayed the significance of the order. Read more

 

Ohio EPA exempts Countywide LF from radioactive waste laws

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County: Stark
Printed In: Canton Repository
Printed On: 2005/12/28
Public Notice:

PUBLIC NOTICE
DIRECTOR'S FINAL FINDINGS & ORDERS

Exemption from 3734.027 and 3745-27-19 Notice is hereby given that on December 20, 2005, the director of Ohio EPA issued Final Findings and Orders to Republic Waste Services of Ohio II, LLC (Republic), Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility, 3619 Gracemont Street S.W., East Sparta, Ohio 44626.

To ensure the proper handling of incidental low-level radioactive waste (LLRW), Ohio EPA has directed the Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility to enhance its screening procedure to identify and isolate this type of waste. Incidental amounts of LLRW are occasionally included in residential solid waste. It typically originates at a home where an individual is recovering from a medical procedure that employed low doses of short half-life isotopes. . Read more

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

 

Systems to remove C8 from water months from completion

By Brian Farkas
Associated Press
Cleveland Plain Dealer
12/27/2005, 5:03 p.m. ET

(AP) — A village administrator in southeast Ohio says he is hopeful that by the end of February a chemical used to produce Teflon at a nearby DuPont Co. plant won't show up in the community's water supply.

Pomeroy's treatment plant is expected to be the first of six water districts in Ohio and West Virginia where carbon filters will remove ammonium perfluorooctanoate, also known as C8, from water drawn from the village's wells. Read moreC8groundwaterammonium perfluorooctanoatedupont

 

Give the gift that keeps on giving — recycle Christmas trash

Tues., Dec. 27, 2005
By Kelli Young
Canton Repository Staff Writer

Christmas is over.

The presents have been put away.

The family has gone home.

You’re still digging through the bundles of boxes, heaps of wrapping paper and leftover food. And you’re trying to find space for the new gifts and what to do with the old ones.

Your holiday celebration centerpiece is starting to drop needles faster than the snow falling from the sky.

What to do with it all? . Read more

 

Ohioans urged to recycle Christmas trees

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Fremont News-Messenger
Sat., Dec. 24, 2005

COLUMBUS -- Live-cut Christmas trees don't have to go out with the trash. Instead, they can take on a second life after the holidays when used as habitat for wildlife or recycled as mulch and compost, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.. Read more

 

Students recycle, raise money for Salvation Army

Four area youngsters were the top fundraisers for the fourth annual Pine Nut Recycling Drive, an annual fundraising event for students in the Tuscarawas Valley. The event raised $742. . . Read more



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Monday, December 26, 2005

 

DuPont ordered to pay US EPA $1.4M for supervising toxic landfill cleanup

By Gary Haber
The (Delaware) News Journal
12/23/2005

DuPont Co. may have to pay the U.S. EPA $1.4 million to cover the agency's costs for supervising cleanup of two Newport landfills, under a ruling by a federal appeals court in Philadelphia.

 

New landfill slated for Steubenville by Pittsburgh-based Liberty Waste

Liberty Waste Services to open landfill in eastern Ohio

Dec. 13 -- Liberty Waste Services LLC is opening a new municipal solid waste landfill near Steubenville, Ohio, that is permitted to accept 5,250 tons of waste each day.

The new Apex landfill includes rail service and is permitted to accept 17.5 million cubic yards of debris. The site has the capacity to eventually hold more than 77.6 million cubic yards without the need to acquire more property.

Apex, situated on 1,285 acres, has a rail yard with more than 11,000 feet of track that can accommodate 120 rail cars, Pittsburgh-based Liberty said.

 

Landfill settles late-fee dust-up

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Waste Management to pay Wood County $200,000 for error

By Jennifer Feehan
Toledo Blade Staff Writer
Weds., Dec. 21, 2005

BOWLING GREEN - The owner of the Evergreen Landfill has agreed to pay Wood County $200,000 to settle a dispute over the late payment of fees for solid waste hauled to the landfill.

The county commissioners yesterday signed an agreement with Waste Management of Ohio Inc. that calls for the payment to be made within 30 days and releases Waste Management from any further liability in the case. .Read more

 

Often-denied transfer station reluctantly OK'd

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License issued at old Elda landfill

By Dan Klepal
Cincinnati Enquirer
staff writer
Fri., Dec. 23, 2005

The Cincinnati Health Department grudgingly approved a license Thursday for Waste Management of Ohio to operate a garbage transfer station at the old Elda Landfill on Este Avenue.

The board had denied the license four times in the past four years, but last year that denial was overturned by an appeals court in Columbus. .Read more

 

Chemicals abound in our tap water

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Canton Repository
Thurs., Dec. 22, 2005

WASHINGTON - Drinking water may have a lot more in it than just H20 and fluoride, according to an environmental group’s analysis of records in 42 states.

A survey by the Environmental Working Group found 141 unregulated chemicals and an additional 119 for which the Environmental Protection Agency has set health-based limits. Most common were disinfection byproducts, nitrates, chloroform, barium, arsenic and copper.

The information came from nearly 40,000 water utilities, serving 231 million people in reports from 1998 to 2003.
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Taft signs bill that toughens landfill regulations

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By Paul E. Kostyu
Copley Newspapers
Columbus Bureau Chief
Fri., Dec. 23, 2005

COLUMBUS - Landfills that take construction and demolition debris face tougher regulations under a new state law that went into effect Thursday.
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New state law to tighten landfill regulations

5 On Your Side Investigation Reveals Dumping On Ohio

POSTED: 6:26 pm EST
Dec., 15, 2005

CLEVELAND -- The dumping on Ohio is about to end, thanks in part to a 5 On Your Side investigation.

State lawmakers just passed a bill to crack down on construction and demolition debris landfills. The move came weeks after chief investigator Duane Pohlman exposed the dangers of those landfills.

The bill, which will tighten regulations, moved at lightning speed, passing in both houses of Congress by an overwhelming majority.

State Sen. Mark Dann said the investigation was crucial in building support in Columbus. Read more

 

Landfill rate hike OK’d by Wood County officials


BOWLING GREEN — Wood County commissioners have approved the first increases in rates at the county landfill since 1991.

Commissioners decided to phase in the most significant rate hike — a proposal to increase the $9 minimum charge individuals pay for up to 460 pounds of solid waste to $15 for a load of up to 780 pounds.

The rate is to increase to $11 Jan. 1, then rise to $13 in 2007 and $15 in 2008.

Commissioners held three public hearings on the proposed rate hikes, but only a handful of people attended.

Most of the increases affect individual users of the landfill on U.S. 6 west of Bowling Green rather than commercial haulers because the smaller loads are more labor intensive for landfill personnel.

 

SWACO completes deal with FirmGreen Energy

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By Lindsey Nock
Record Staff Writer
Thurs., Dec. 22, 2005

The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio has struck a deal with California-based FirmGreen Energy Inc. to turn landfill gases into commodities.

Landfill gases are produced when garbage in the landfill begins to deteriorate. The landfill currently flares the gasses [sic], burning them off...Read more

 

Transfer station can operate pending action

The city health board meets at 9 a.m. Friday.
Weds., Dec. 21, 2005

WARREN — The city may be getting a temporary reprieve from the prospect of having to find another transfer station to handle its garbage after Jan. 1.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has recommended that the city health board propose denial of the Warren Recycling transfer station's 2006 operating license, but the facility may continue to operate pending final action. .Read more

 

Krzic students learn about Ohio EPA, pollution

Ashtabula Star-Beacon
12/23/2005

GENEVA - Krzic Elementary students cringed as a cup with water and dirty motor oil was passed around their classroom Monday afternoon.

The water was stuck on the bottom, leaving the sludge-like oil floating on top.

But how do you remove oil from water? ..Read more