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The natural habitat and drainage functions of these headwaters were destroyed by the Pennsylvania Coal Company’s Gypsy Grove Colliery beginning in the 1860’s. Today, the headwaters area land use is dominated by the Keystone Landfill and Interstate 81.The Dunmore Cemetery and the Forest Hill Cemetery are in the stream's vicinity.
Keystone Sanitary Landfill, the largest landfill in the state of Pennsylvania has been located in Dunmore since 1973, [15] about 450 feet from the Dunmore Reservoir #1, a backup drinking water supply. In 1987, it extended to Throop, Pennsylvania. [16] The landfill was built over mines known for ground subsidence.
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]
Throop is located at (41.445536, -75.614494 [4]According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 5.0 square miles (13 km 2), all land.It is bordered to the northeast by Olyphant, to the north by Blakely, to the northwest by Dickson City, to the west by Scranton, and to the south by Dunmore.
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As landfill operators struggle to control the chemical reaction, they acknowledge that the amount of contaminated water leaking from the facility has increased from about 20,000 gallons a day to ...
I-84 westbound at PA 247 in Jefferson Township. I-84 starts in Pennsylvania at I-81 in Dunmore, a suburb east of Scranton, along with the northern end of I-380.After two miles (3.2 km), I-84 splits from I-380, as the latter goes southeasterly through the Poconos and I-84 continues almost due east into Wayne and Pike counties.
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