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  2. Environment of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    GROWS North Landfill Bucks Tullytown Landfill Bucks SECCRA Landfill adv: 375 mdv: 700 Chester IESI Bethlehem Landfill adv: 1,375 mdv: 1,800 North Hampton Commonwealth Environmental Systems adv: 4,750 mdv: 5,000 Schuylkill Chrin Brothers Sanitary Landfill adv: 1,500 mdv: 2,000 Northampton Alliance Landfill adv: 3,000 mdv: 5,500 Lackawanna

  3. List of Superfund sites in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in Pennsylvania designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]

  4. Toxic ‘trash juice’ a problem at four NH landfills, including ...

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    That same company is trying to overcome local opposition to build a landfill half a mile from a lake in the tiny North Country town of Dalton, about a 20-minute drive from Bethlehem, the 2,500 ...

  5. List of landfills in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of landfills in the United States.A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment.Historically, landfills have been the most common method of organized waste disposal and remain so in many places around the world.

  6. Landfills in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Fresh Kills Landfill is an example of an urban landfill restoration that turned parts of the world's largest landfill into an urban green space. [21] These types of restorations are effective, however, as the U.S develops more and more land and destroys native habitats, efforts towards restoring grasslands are becoming more concentrated ...

  7. Combe Fill South Superfund Site - Wikipedia

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    The Combe Fill South Landfill is located on the border of Chester and Washington townships, both of which are in Morris County, in the state of New Jersey.The Landfill was put on the National Priority List by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) in September 1983 due to the site being tested for potentially dangerous chemicals, such as benzene, methylene chloride, and chloroform.

  8. Emmell's Septic Landfill Superfund site - Wikipedia

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    Emmell's Septic Landfill (ESL) is a landfill in Galloway Township, New Jersey and takes up about 38 acres of space. The landfill was in operation from 1967 until 1979. ESL disposed of liquid and solid waste including many chemicals such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), Trichloroethene and Vinyl chloride which all had their own effect on the environment ...

  9. Centralia mine fire - Wikipedia

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    In 1962, it reached the landfill area. Those who adhere to the Bast Theory believe that the dump fire is a separate fire unrelated to the Centralia mine fire. One man who disagrees is Frank Jurgill Sr., who claims he operated a bootleg mine with his brother in the vicinity of the landfill between 1960 and 1962. He says that if the Bast Colliery ...