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Scott Township is a township in the north central area of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 4,641. [2]It is one of the five municipalities comprising the Lakeland School District.
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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]
Scott Township has nine land borders, including the Pittsburgh neighborhood of East Carnegie and Green Tree to the north, the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Banksville to the northeast, Mt. Lebanon to the east, Upper St. Clair Township to the south, Bridgeville to the southwest, Collier Township and Heidelberg to the west, and Carnegie to the northwest.
Jermyn, known as "The Birthplace of First Aid in America", [4] is a borough which is located in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.Located on the Lackawanna River, it is 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Scranton.
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 have a liner to protect the land from contaminate.
As of the census [4] of 2010, there were 2,178 people, 925 households, and 586 families residing in the township. The population density was 142.4 people per square mile (55.0 people/km 2).
It was expanded to 27 acres (11 ha) by Harold Oswald who operated the landfill from 1966 to 1979. [3] The state inspected the landfill in 1972 and found that industrial sludge, batteries, and barrels of petroleum product had been dumped on site. [4] Contamination was detected in nearby water wells in 1982 and the landfill was the immediate ...