{"id":5673,"date":"2013-09-14T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2013-09-13T21:06:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T01:06:44","slug":"waste-from-superfund-site-in-waycross-went-to-lowndes-county-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/waste-from-superfund-site-in-waycross-went-to-lowndes-county-landfill.html","title":{"rendered":"Waste from Superfund site in Waycross went to Lowndes County landfill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nWhat was in that waste water\r\nthat went into  landfill in an aquifer recharge zone,\r\nwith surface runoff into the Withlacoochee River?\r\nThe 44 shipments from the toxic waste site in Waycross to the Pecan Row\r\nlandfill in Lowndes County were\r\n&#8220;Non RCRA Regulated Liquids&#8221;, but\r\n&#8220;PCBs are not defined as hazardous wastes&#8221;\r\nand\r\naccording to the U.S. Department of Energy,\r\n&#8220;To be a hazardous waste, a material must first be a solid waste.&#8221;\r\nSo &#8220;Non RCRA Regulated Liquids&#8221; apparently says nothing about hazard\r\nor toxicity.\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/9736360687\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Cover\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7312\/9736360687_1b34eb3f18_m.jpg\" alt=\"Cover\"><\/a>\r\n44 shipments went from the\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/aquifer-and-well-contamination-miles-from-waycross-seven-out-superfund-site.html\">&#8220;7 Out Site&#8221;<\/a>\r\nto &#8220;Pecan Row, Valdosta, GA&#8221; for $59,495.00 total\r\nof your federal tax dollars paid to Veolia,\r\naccording to\r\npages 12 and 13\r\nof\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epaosc.org\/sites\/1497\/files\/ERRS%20-%20final%20report%20(rates%20omitted).pdf\">\r\nFinal Report, Task Order # F-0032, Seven Out LLC Tank Site, Waycross, Georgia,\r\nContract No. 68S4-02-06<\/a>\r\nfor \r\nEmergency and Rapid Response Services, EPA Region 4,\r\nPrepared By WRS Infrastructure &#038; Environment, Inc.,\r\n5555 Oakbrook Pkwy, Suite 175, Norcross, Georgia 30093,\r\nMay 2, 2006.\r\n<p>\r\nIs this where those\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/landfill-pcb-violation.html\">PCBs in the landfill<\/a> came from?\r\nEPA itself says,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/waste.supportportal.com\/link\/portal\/23002\/23023\/Article\/14009\/Are-polychlorinated-biphenyls-PCBs-regulated-under-RCRA-as-a-hazardous-waste\">\r\nAre polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) regulated under RCRA as a hazardous waste?<\/a>\r\n<blockquote>\r\nPCBs are not defined as hazardous wastes (Memo, Weddle to Verde; May 18, 1984 (RCRA Online #12235)).\r\nHowever, it is possible that PCBs may be incidental contaminants in listed hazardous waste (e.g., solvent used to remove PCBs from transformers) or may be present in wastes that are characteristically hazardous. In these cases, wastes that otherwise meet a listing criteria or are characteristically hazardous are still subject to RCRA regulation regardless of PCB content. \r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/9736362095\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Pecan Row, Valdosta, GA page 1\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7393\/9736362095_f4ef2e3af4_n.jpg\" alt=\"Pecan Row, Valdosta, GA page 1\"><\/a>\r\nHowever, to avoid duplicative regulation with Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), certain PCB containing wastes that exhibit the toxicity characteristic are exempt from regulation under RCRA (Monthly Call Center Report Question; September 1996 (RCRA Online #14014)). Section 261.8 exempts from RCRA Subtitle C regulation PCB-containing dielectric fluid and the electric equipment which holds such fluid if they satisfy two criteria. First, these PCB wastes must be regulated under the TSCA standards of Part 761. Second, only the PCB wastes which exhibit the toxicity characteristic for an organic constituent (waste codes D018-43) may qualify for the exemption (\u00a7261.8).\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nApparently any liquid wastes from a Superfund site would be\r\n&#8220;Non RCRA Regulated Liquids&#8221;, according to\r\nU.S. DoE EH-231-034\/0593 (May 1993),\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/homer.ornl.gov\/sesa\/environment\/guidance\/rcra\/exclude.pdf\">\r\nExclusions and Exemptions from RCRA Hazardous Waste Regulation<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/9736363121\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Pecan Row, Valdosta, GA page 2\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7294\/9736363121_eb9ac788c1_n.jpg\" alt=\"Pecan Row, Valdosta, GA page 2\"><\/a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\r\nany solid or dissolved material introduced by a source\r\ninto a federally owned treatment work (FOTW) if certain\r\nconditions, described in Sect. 108 of the FFCA of 1992,\r\nare met;\r\n<li>\r\nindustrial wastewater discharges that are point source\r\ndischarges regulated under section 402 of the Clean\r\nWater Act [\u00a7261.4(a)(2)]\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nIf a Superfund site is not a federally owned treatment work,\r\nwhat is?\r\nAnd if the Seven Out site was not an industrial wastewater\r\npoint source, what is?\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/9736364631\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Sample waste manifest, Onyx Pecan Row, Valdosta, GA\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7294\/9736364631_34ddd3654d_n.jpg\" alt=\"Sample waste manifest, Onyx Pecan Row, Valdosta, GA\"><\/a>\r\nThe Onyx Waste Manifests on pages 75-120\r\nsay the materials were &#8220;Non-Hazardous Non-Regulated Waste water&#8221;.\r\n(Onyx became Veolia Environmental Services in 2005,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veolia-environmentalservices.com\/news-media\/focus\/key-dates.htm\">\r\naccording to Veolia<\/a>.)\r\nAs we&#8217;ve seen, &#8220;Non-Regulated&#8221; apparently means little.\r\nWe don&#8217;t know what was in that waste water\r\nthat went into a landfill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/landfill-is-in-aquifer-recharge-zone.html\">\r\nin a recharge zone for\r\nthe Floridan Aquifer<\/a>, the source of our drinking water,\r\nand\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/landfill-pipeline.html\">\r\nwith surface runoff into the Withlacoochee River<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What was in that waste water that went into landfill in an aquifer recharge zone, with surface runoff into the Withlacoochee River? 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