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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]
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is the agency in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania responsible for protecting and preserving the land, air, water, and public health through enforcement of the state's environmental laws. [1] It was created by Act 18 of 1995, which split the Department of Environmental Resources into ...
Moyer's Landfill. Coordinates: 40.156244°N 75.436162°W. Moyer's Landfill was a privately owned landfill in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, United States. It was originally farmland outside the town. In the 1940s, the owner started accepting trash and municipal waste as a way to make additional money. The original landfill was 39 acres and did not ...
Dec. 18—WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) to Keystone Sanitary Landfill (KSL) in Lackawanna County for failure ...
Jan. 8—WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection on Monday announced it has issued a Notice of Violation to Keystone Sanitary Landfill in Lackawanna County for ...
Apr. 2—WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has entered a Consent Order and Agreement (COA) with Keystone Sanitary Landfill for odor violations ...
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 ...
Aug. 12—The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has approved an expansion of the Rolling Hills Landfill in Earl Township. The Delaware County Solid Waste Authority, the landfill ...