New York Landfill Fight Heads To Court

Date: May 22, 2003

Source: News Room

The fight to reopen and enlarge an Albion, New York landfill located near the Erie Canal will now head to court. The Albion Town Board has voted unanimously to deny Waste Management of New York Inc. the permits it would need to open the 72-acre Towpath Environmental and Recycling Center on an existing landfill site. If approved, the new landfill would have been an expansion of the Orleans Sanitary Landfill, which closed in the early 1990s when its owner was charged with accepting too much waste and falsifying business records. Waste Management later contracted with the owner's bankruptcy trustees to cap the existing landfill and take over operations of the site.

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