In a case of failing to keep up with the paperwork the Pennsylvania Departmtent of Environmental Protection has fined the Grand Central Sanitary Landfill operator fined for late renewal of its permit to release leachate to the Lower Delaware river. Part of the problem may have been the unusual requirement which the authorities have placed on the application that it be made 1 year in advance.
Is this all an unnecessary bureacrtic nonsense? We tend to think so, but we suggest that you read the full article and come to your own view!
The operators of the Grand Central Sanitary Landfill was fined for failing to reapply on time for a permit allowing the release of treated leachate into a waterway.Landfill district manager Scott Perin said the late submission was due to "different interpretations" by the landfill and the Delaware River Basin Commission about when the reapplication was required. The basin commission is expected to grant a permit renewal on Wednesday.
On Monday, basin commission spokeswoman Katharine O'Hara said in an emailed response that Grand Central was fined $2,000 for a late processing fee in addition to the $1,000 reapplication fee. Perin said on Monday that he could not remember how much Grand Central was fined.
The river basin commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday to vote on whether or not the Plainfield Township landfill, which is owned and operated by Waste Management, will be granted a renewal permit to continue releasing 100,000 gallons per day of treated leachate into the Little Bushkill Creek.
Commission staff are recommending approval of the landfill's reapplication. According to the docket, the discharge's drainage area is in a non-tidal portion of the Delaware River known as the Lower Delaware, which is designated by the commission as Special Protection Waters.
On Friday, O'Hara said in an email that the landfill's previous discharge docket had required the applicants to file for a reapplication one year in advance of its April 2009 expiration date. After notification was sent out by the commission in January 2011, the landfill submitted its renewal application in March 2011, which will be considered for approval on Wednesday.
In order to release the treated leachate, the landfill is also required to have a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit from the Pennsylvania Departmtent of Environmental Protection, which was reissued in December 2009.
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