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This is a list of Superfund sites in Tennessee 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]
Puente Hills Landfill, Los Angeles County, the largest landfill in the country (closed) Redwood Landfill, Marin County (Novato) Scholl Canyon Landfill, located in Glendale, California. Shoreline Park, Mountain View, now a city park. Sunshine Canyon Landfill, Sylmar, California. Toyon Canyon Landfill, Los Angeles, closed in 1985.
Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. 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 ...
Municipal solid waste (MSW) – more commonly known as trash or garbage – consists of everyday items people use and then throw away, such as product packaging, grass clippings, furniture, clothing, bottles, food scraps and papers. In 2018, Americans generated about 265.3 million tonnes of waste. [1] In the United States, landfills are ...
v. t. e. A landfill[a] is a site for the disposal of waste materials. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of waste with daily, intermediate and final covers only began in the 1940s. In the past, waste was simply left in piles or thrown into pits (known in archeology as middens).
Hawkish residents questioned why Republic Services Inc. — a multi-billion-dollar waste disposal company — wanted tax-free funding for a project at its Arlington landfill. The $59B owner of a ...
Sep. 4—PALMER — Two weeks of free dumping in Mat-Su in September will give residents a chance to get rid of junk ahead of winter for no cost now but with the possibility of higher fees in the ...
Walterhill, also known as Walter Hill, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rutherford County, Tennessee.The population was 401 at the 2010 census. [5]Walterhill is the site of the 34-acre (140,000 m 2) Walterhill Floodplain State Natural Area, established to support a rare plant species found in the Stones River floodplain, the Stones River bladderpod (Paysonia stonensis). [6]