Environmental Pollutants
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Talk to a lawyer about your experience with the Alliance Landfill odor
The area around the Alliance Landfill in Taylor Borough, PA has a history of odor problems and concerns for air quality, and area residents' health, going back to the 20th century. In a three-year period Alliance Landfill collected 60 violations and 176 odor complaints. By 2001, The Northeast Pennsylvania Business Journal reported on plunging property values due to malodorous conditions, and cites “a citizens' revolt [...] after a small amount of radioactive waste was discovered.”
If you have suffered personal health problems, property devaluation, or other decreases in your quality of life due to Alliance's malodorous effects, the lawyers at Weitz & Luxenberg want to talk to you. There is no charge for this consultency.
Alliance Landfill's Background
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released a 2005 study documenting the various problems, threats and risks of running Alliance Landfill at proper rate.
According to the HHS report, Alliance's owner, Waste Management, commissioned an independent study of its landfill gas management system that found “significant deficiencies” in its operations. Notably, Dominion Energy, whose job it was in 2000 collect landfill gases underharvested the minimum set by the air permit by 8.5%. It also found that the methane surface emissions limit was exceeded for half the year, and that well-field monitoring was “inadequate.”
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection cited the fill's “leachate treatment systems failure, blockages in gas collection lines, and ineffective cover material as causes of the odor violations.” These violations resulted in a one-month shutdown.
Though a connection has yet to be established, a cancer incidence joint review by the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PADOH) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) found that Taylor Borough residents “showed a higher number of anus, rectum, and rectosigmoid cancers than Pennsylvania state cancer numbers.” Lacking more data in the ongoing study, the ASTDR classified Alliance Landfill as an indeterminate public health hazard.
Despite a history of problems with methane levels according to The Times Tribune, the landfill was granted permission to expand.
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The experienced attorneys at Weitz & Luxenberg will build you the strongest possible case to get the compensation you deserve for your suffering and loss of property value. We made our name bringing suit against environmental polluters and we have extended our aid to plaintiffs all over the country in the 25 years since. Contact Weitz & Luxenberg via the form on this page. A representative from our firm will respond to you in short order.
Sources:
http://www.allbusiness.com/north-america/united-states-pennsylvania/890947-1.html
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hac/PHA/EmpireSanitary082604HC/EmpireSanitary082604HC.pdf
see also:
Countryside Landfill
Terminally unpleasant: Countryside Landfill odor stinks up GrayslakeCountrywide landfill fails to control odors
Grand Central Landfill
Terminally unpleasant: Grand Central Landfill odor stinks up PennsylvaniaGrand central landfill fails to control noxious odors and sickens residents
Landfill Violations
News: Pike Township Landfill cited for boundary violationsPike Township Landfill in Bolivar, Ohio, cited for eight violations
