{"id":5916,"date":"2013-10-07T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2013-10-07T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T12:48:09","slug":"from-seven-out-in-waycross-to-csx-to-pecan-row-landfill-in-lowndes-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/from-seven-out-in-waycross-to-csx-to-pecan-row-landfill-in-lowndes-county.html","title":{"rendered":"From Seven Out in Waycross to CSX to Pecan Row Landfill in Lowndes County"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nCSX was involved directly in the\r\n\r\nSeven Out contamination<\/a>,\r\nstoring hazardous water that leaked:\r\nand then that water was apparently shipped to the Pecan Row Landfill in Lowndes County.\r\nThis is in addition to the\r\n\r\nthe CSX trichloroethylene groundwater contamination<\/a> dating back to 2000 and earlier.\r\n

\r\nAccording to a letter from Georgia Department of Natural Resources\r\nto BCX, Inc. of 20 July 2004,\r\n\r\nEPA Identification Number: GAR000030007<\/a>,\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n
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  1. \r\nTwenty-seven tanks of wastewater were stored at the facility.\r\nFour portable tanks were storing the excess capacity of wastewater next door\r\non property owned by CSX Transportation.\r\nThese portable 10,000-gallon tanks were not labeled to indicate their contents;\r\n
  2. \r\nAccording to a BCX representative, one of the portable 10,000-gallon tanks\r\nhad a gasket failure on the forward manhole which caused the release of an\r\nunknown substance onto the ground at the site owned by CSX\r\n Transportation;\r\n
  3. \r\nDead vegetation was observed in a 15 feet by 30 feet area downgradient of the\r\ntank that caused the release;\r\n
  4. \r\nA yellowish-green substance was observed on the ground between the portable\r\ntank that had the release and another portable tank adjacent to it. There was\r\nalso dead vegetation observed between these two tanks; and\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

    \r\nAnd GA EPD tested the soil and found something the document doesn’t\r\nspecify, but whatever it was was enough that:\r\n

    \r\nWHEREAS, based on the inspections, the Respondent is in violation of the following:\r\n
      \r\n
    1. \r\nSolid Waste Rules:\r\n
        \r\n
      1. \r\nChapter 391r3-4-.02, “Solid Waste Handling Permits” – operation of a\r\nsolid waste handling facility without a permit required by the Solid Waste\r\nManagement Act; and\r\n<\/ol>\r\n
      2. \r\nHazardous Waste Rules:\r\n
          \r\n
        1. \r\n40 CFR Section 262.11, “Hazardous Waste Determination” – because\r\nthe Respondent failed to determine if the wastes stored at the Facility are\r\nhazardous or non-hazardous.\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

          \r\nSo GA EPD required BCX to put up a million dollar bond\r\nand fined it $50,000.00, payable to GA DNR.\r\n

          \r\nWhere did these wastewaters stored on CSX property come from?\r\n

          \r\n
            \r\n
          1. \r\nThe Facility operated as a commercial non-hazardous waste storage and\r\ntreatment facility. When the plant was in operation, the facility received\r\nwastewaters from numerous waste generators including leachate from the\r\nNassau County Solid Waste Landfill located in Nassau County, Florida and from\r\nBroadhurst Environmental, which operates a solid waste landfill in Screvin,\r\nGeorgia. The wastewaters that were received by the Facility were treated at the\r\nsite and subsequently discharged to the city’s Publicly Owned Treatment Works\r\n‘ (hereinafter “POTW”). Because the plant discharged to the city’s POTW under a\r\nprc-traatment permit issued by the City of Waycross, the Facility was initially\r\nexempt from permitting under the Solid Waste Management Act;\r\n
          2. \r\nOn March 1, 2004, the City of Waycross terminated BCX’s connection to the\r\n. sewer system because of continued failure to meet the pre-treatment standards.\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

            \r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nAnd where did the remaining wastewater that the City of Waycross\r\nwouldn’t accept go?\r\n\r\n196,500 gallons<\/a> of it went to\r\n\r\nthe Pecan Row landfill in Lowndes County<\/a>.\r\n

            \r\nDesignated “Non RCRA Regulated Liquids”.\r\nNevermind those liquids weren’t acceptable by the City of Waycross\r\nfor its wastewater system; the privatized Veolia (then called Onyx,\r\nnow owned by ADS) landfill in Lowndes County accepted them no problem.\r\nThe landfill that’s\r\n\r\nin an aquifer recharge zone<\/a> and just uphill from the Withlacoochee River.\r\n

            \r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nMaybe people near Lowndes County’s Pecan Row Landfill who are sick\r\nmight want to fill out that\r\n\r\nquestionnaire<\/a>.\r\n

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