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That liquid is contained and stored as leachate. When rain falls on a landfill in Pennsylvania, water passes through the collected waste and leaches out some of the soluble constituents. Where and how this is all happening is best illustrated in the Public Herald interactive map “How Radioactive Fracking Waste Gets Into Pennsylvania Waterways” - produced with FracTracker Alliance. On the high end we’re looking at 1.6 billion gallons of leachate per year. Our own review of sewage discharge data from the Belle Vernon Plant says the total amount of landfill leachate potentially released to these 15 facilities, on the low end, is 547,500,000 million gallons per year (36,500,000 million gallons annually per facility), depending on rainfall. When we asked the Department to provide the total annual volume of leachate for each of the 15 facilities, the DEP told Public Herald, “We do not have this information available.”ĭissatisfied with this response, we’ve requested that the Department find out why and how they could not know the amounts. But one facility, the Belle Vernon sewage plant in Fayette County, shut down its leachate intake in May after superintendent Guy Kruppa said it was “killing their bugs.” In the west 11 facilities - one hitting the Allegheny River from a plant in Johnstown, another reaching the treasured Youghiogheny River - are discharging radioactive fracking waste as landfill leachate into the Ohio River watershed.Īt start of 2019, there were 15, not 14, sewage facilities overseen by DEP to send landfill leachate to waterways. In the east, the effluent of pollution flows from three facilities upstream of Harrisburg down the Susquehanna River into Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay. The 14 discharge points hit waterways across the Commonwealth. The size of this story is vast and the numbers are overwhelming. The process DEP created to “treat” and discharge the leachate through sewage plants appears to date as far back as the fracking boom (2009 or longer). On any given day, Governor Tom Wolf could look out from his window to wildlife on the River and people recreating in the waters rushing by.īut what Wolf can’t see, is that his own Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has allowed radioactive material from fracking waste to be discharged into that River through sewage facilities upstream.Ī Public Herald investigation has uncovered that DEP is allowing 14 Sewage Waste Treatment Plants to discharge radioactive fracking waste as landfill leachate into 13 Pennsylvania waterways. Water that travels ninety-one miles downstream from Joey ends up at the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence on the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg. He hasn’t caught anything in the hour he’s been out today, but one time he caught a catfish as long as his arm, and he’s hoping that will happen again. Joey spends a lot of time around the Rivers swimming, fishing, and cannon-balling from the bridges that crisscross the waters. Hazardous waste (paints, oils, poisons, corrosives, batteries).Joey Bacon, 13, stands ready under the Lance Corporal Abram Howard Memorial bridge in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, with his fishing pole cast into the West Branch of the Susquehanna River.We DO NOT pick up any of the following items, please do not include any of these items in your trash. The lid should be able to close.įor each bag that you put out, we ask that it does not exceed 35 pounds in weight.

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The maximum cart weight when full is 75 lbs. Place all trash in plastic bags, and secure the bags to help prevent spillage and keep the toter clean. It is not permissible to substitute any other trash bags.įor more information regarding your collection day please call your municipality or Southampton Township at (717)-532-9646 – Ext 102 Trash will only be collected if it is in the toter.īag customers must use bags purchased from your municipality or the Southampton Township Office. For Regular service customers, trash must be completely bagged and in the trash toter.

Residential garbage is collected once per week.

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