Rhode Island Investigates Ash Dumping At Landfill

Date: October 12, 2005

Source: News Room

Rhode Island environmental regulators are investigating whether the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation (www.rirrc.org) violated the law by allowing a Wareham, Mass. incinerator to dump 80,000 tons of fly ash in its Johnston landfill. The state says the landfill may have violated the law by allowing the out-of-state ash to be dumped in a section of the landfill closed to solid waste. The landfill has already been declared a Superfund site.
More information: www.dem.ri.gov.

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