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This is a list of Superfund sites in Maryland designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
The most recent county formation in Maryland occurred in 1872 when Garrett County was split from Allegany County. [2] However, there have been numerous changes to county borders since that time, most recently when portions of the city of Takoma Park that had previously been part of Prince George's County were absorbed into Montgomery County in 1997.
The County lost a dedicated source of income, leaving a liability. After dumping operations discontinued at Alpha Ridge, Howard County chose to export solid waste by an Anne Arundel County train terminal in Annapolis Junction, Maryland to the privately run King George County Landfill in Virginia. Both sites were developed by Blake Van Leer II ...
Nov. 21—MAX Environmental Technologies has halted its plan to reapply for a permit to add a new hazardous waste landfill at its site near Yukon. The Upper St. Clair-based company is instead ...
Industrial residents of Hawkins Point include the Quarantine Road Sanitary Landfill, owned by Baltimore City, [4] a 67-acre hazardous waste landfill at 5501 Quarantine Road, owned by the Maryland Port Administration (MPA) [5] and now a Superfund site and a foundry at 4000 Hawkins Point Road owned by Eastalco Aluminum Company. [6]
The plant can process 3,200 cubic feet of landfill gas per minute — enough gas to heat more than 13,000 homes annually, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Landfill Gas ...
Hickory is an unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States. Hickory is located at the junction of Maryland Route 543 and U.S. Route 1 Business 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Bel Air .
The Scarboro Landfill is a controversial landfill in Harford County, Maryland in the United States. It is located on the property of the Harford Waste Disposal Center operated by the Harford County Government where a separate sanitary landfill is in use. An assessment of the landfills was carried out and confirmed the concerns raised by local ...