DEP, Rostraver Township landfill reach agreement
By CHRISTINE HAINES
chaines@yourmvi.com
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has negotiated a consent order with Westmoreland County Sanitary Landfill in Rostraver Township to correct issues that have arisen since the landfill’s contract with the Mon Valley Sewage Authority ended in May.
Under the consent order, the landfill will pay a $24,000 civil penalty and undertake a number of corrective actions.
Those actions include reducing the working face of the active landfill area to minimize the amount of leachate generated when it rains; submit a permit modification to authorize trucking until on-site treatment equipment or other methods are installed and to submit documentation of agreements and authorizations for the facilities currently treating the leachate.
Leachate from the landfill has been trucked to Altoona, Duncansville and Butler County in Pennsylvania and two sites in Ohio. Its DEP permit does not allow for the leachate, the liquid which percolates through the landfill, to be trucked from the site.
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