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The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO) was established by the Ohio General Assembly in 1989 as part of Ohio House Bill 592, which created Ohio’s current solid waste management planning and regulatory programs. [1] [2] SWACO is a government-run entity responsible for the safe and sanitary management of all solid waste within its ...
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.
Westinghouse Electric Corp. (Sunnyvale Plant) Santa Clara: 10/15/1984: 06/10/1986: 09/27/2000: N/A: N/A CAD980893234: Watkins-Johnson Co. (Stewart Division Plant) Santa Cruz: 01/22/1987: 08/30/1990: 09/22/1994: N/A: N/A CAD980498612: Iron Mountain Mine: Shasta: Surface water is contaminated with sulfuric acid, copper, zinc, and cadmium from the ...
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The landfill hosts about 4,500 people on free tours every year. Brown said guides have already stopped to show off the bees to a handful of tours. More than 12,000 honeybees swarm two hives at the ...
The landfill receives 2 million tons (2 × 10 6 kg) of household and industrial wastes annually. [2] Mount Rumpke is 1,075 feet (328 m) above sea level and the highest landform in Hamilton County, Ohio, clearly visible from U.S. Route 27. [1] [3] It is the largest landfill in the state of Ohio [3] and the sixth largest in the United States. [4]
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 .
Gowdy Field is a former garden, athletic field, landfill, and now business park located in Columbus, Ohio. [1]The land was originally annexed in 1921. The site is situated on the west side of Olentangy River Road near the Goodale interchange, just west of State Route 315, south of 3rd Avenue and east of the CSX railroad tracks.