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A 2019 report estimated that New Hampshire’s landfill capacity could have a shortfall of 120,000 tons in disposal capacity by 2025, which has state officials considering plans to expand landfill ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in New Hampshire 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 ...
Sites include landfills, mines, manufacturing facilities, processing plants where toxic waste has either been improperly managed or dumped. They were designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980.
Landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions in the United States, with municipal solid waste landfills representing 95 percent of this fraction. [15] [16] In the U.S., the number of landfill gas projects increased from 399 in 2005, to 594 in 2012 [17] according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
NH will allow Turnkey to move forward with its plan to accept an additional 1.4 million to 1.55 million tons of waste, some of it from out of state. NH approves 60-acre expansion of Turnkey ...
Other landfills that have received letters this year include ones in Rochester, run by Waste Management New Hampshire; Conway, run by the town; and Lebanon, operated by the city. Waste Management ...
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.
New Hampshire’s proposed hydraulic conductivity of 0.005 centimeters per second would allow landfills to be built in areas where liquid could move through the ground at a rate of 15 feet per day ...