As soon as the leak was detected by the town’s fuel monitoring system, the tank was pulled from the ground and the 700 tons of soil surrounding the tank was exposed and given to Phoenix Soil in Waterbury, where it was incinerated. The town lost a little less than two years of fuel due to
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A new maximum sulfur content standard of 500 parts per million for home heating oil and lighter grade fuel oil will take effect on July 1, 2014, and a second phase of more stringent standards to reduce sulfur to 15 parts per million will take effect on July 1, 2016. That is down from current
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New York’s Orange County is paying to truck solid waste to Connecticut after technical problems at the Harriman sewage plant forced a Rockland County recycling facility to turn away the sewage. Officials at the Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority said that giant containers of sludge from Harriman failed to contain enough “solids” to be
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Coal ash buried at the NRG Energy power plant property is continuing to pollute groundwater and soil with arsenic, beryllium and other heavy metals at levels higher than those considered safe, a study released Thursday by three environmental groups shows.
The NRG plant was the only Connecticut site among 39 listed in the report from the Environmental Integrity Project, Earthjustice and the Sierra Club about the dangers of coal ash wastes to groundwater and surface water supplies, Judy Benson of The Day reports.
