Landfill leaks inevitable

DO LANDFILLS LEAK?

Yes. Current landfill regulations limit the amount of leakage but do not prohibit leaks.

Landfill liners are made of soil separated by a sheet of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), delivered in large rolls and heat welded in the field. HDPE is available thicknesses ranging from 40 mil to 120 mil. The DEC minimum standard is 60 mil. Part 360-2.13(k)(2)(i).

The DEC began requiring liners and leachate collection systems for landfills after December 1988, to meet minimum protections mandated by the EPA. ... Read more.

Landfill ramp hinges on resolving 3 issues

By BARB LIMBACHER, T-R Staff Correspondent
The Times-Reporter

EAST SPARTA – David Held, executive director of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District, said he and officials from the Ohio Department of Transportation, Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility and others met Tuesday about the status of a proposed I-77 on/off ramp at Gracemont St. in Stark County.

Countywide officials said until three issues are resolved, they will not take any action on construction of a ramp. ... Read more.

Waste Management quarterly profit rises

MSN Money

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Waste Management Inc. , the largest U.S. trash hauler, on Tuesday posted a stronger-than-expected 7.8 percent increase in quarterly profit as it pushed through higher prices, sending shares to a 6-1/2 year high. . . Read more

Higher tipping fees will discourage expansion of landfills

Letter to the Editor
Canton Repository

I have found the way to stop the out-of-state waste problem and the problem of landfill and transfer station expansion in Stark County: Get our state legislators to raise the tipping fees for those who truck or railroad out-of-state waste into our state.

Bottom line: Call your legislators. We have to stop this, or no one will ever want to move into Ohio because we will be known as America’s Dumping ground.

Now do you think that the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency would want that? Who pays the OEPA paychecks? Waste Management (American Landfill), or we, the hard-working taxpayers? They should think of that before they decide on the expansion of the American Landfill. The tipping fees will not pay all of their paychecks; we do. Wake up, Ohio EPA!

GREGORY S. WHIPKEY,
OSNABURG TOWNSHIP

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Methane gas has potential to contaminate groundwater

Hampden landfill wells aim to remedy odor problems

Eric Russell
Bangor Daily News

HAMPDEN, Maine - A well-drilling project designed to alleviate odor problems related to the Pine Tree Landfill wrapped up last week, but it could be another week or so before the changes are noticeable, officials said.

Some 14 additional wells or pipes were drilled at the landfill and connected to devices that help burn off not only methane gas but also hydrogen sulfide, which produces a noxious odor.
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Ohio EPA determines Morrow landfill applications are complete despite subsequent revisions

Opposition to landfills stymied

By Alberta Stojkovic
Gannett News Service

MOUNT GILEAD -- The hope of some residents that a new law would apply to applications for construction and demolition debris landfills pending in Morrow County has been dashed.

They were banking on the law to stall a proposed landfill.

A letter from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency director states that the "grandfather clause" built into new legislation signed by the governor in December applies to landfill applications in Harmony and Washington townships, according to county Health Commissioner Krista Wasowski. . . Read more

Surprise! New landfill liner leaks

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

Surprise Inspection of Lebanon County Landfill

After driving around to the other side of the landfill, we get out and walk across the new pad to where the leak is marked with an orange arrow painted on the edge of the liner.

As we crunch across the loose crushed stone of the new pad of the landfill, Mike said they discovered the leak about . . . . .. . . Mike Pavelek and Jim Grabusky . . . . . 3 weeks ago. . .

Even though the hole was only as big round as a pin hole, Mike said they noticed it almost immediately.

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Farmer files landfill lawsuit

Farmer seeks $2.5M for groundwater contamination

Allows city to install monitoring wells on farm

By Jay Conley
The Roanoke Times

BEDFORD, VA - A Bedford County farmer whose land has been polluted by the city of Bedford's old landfill has filed a $2.5 million lawsuit against the city.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in Bedford County Circuit Court, is the latest in a more than two-year struggle by Mike Schrock to get the city to clean up his land so he can use it for farming purposes again. . . Read more