Landfill Gains 10-Year Extension…and a Big Fine

The Chrin Bros. Sanitary Landfill near Allentown, Pennsylvania has been granted a 10-year renewal of its state permit to operate in Williams Township, but it has also been fined $187,500 for odors and other environmental violations. The permit allows Chrin to continue running the 73-acre landfill through 2019. It also requires 18 acres of open landfill to be capped temporarily to collect gases and control odors. Chrin this month installed a plastic geomembrane to cap 7.4 acres and has agreed to cap an additional 10.5 acres by the end of 2011. Altogether, the temporarily capped areas and the already permanently capped 27.1 acres will account for 60 percent of the landfill’s area of operations.