“We noted violations at this facility soon after it began operating five years ago, yet the company did not correct the violations in a timely manner,” Feola says. “Waste processors must operate properly, safely and in full compliance with their permits.”
In July 2003, DEP issued a notice of violation to the company when inspectors found excess waste on the facility’s tipping floor, with waste piled up to the ceiling and literally spilling out of the building.
During follow-up inspections in October 2003, DEP confirmed these continuing violations, as well as additional problems, including ADC’s failure to limit waste transfer operations to the interior of the building and failure to confine waste to unloading and storage areas of the site. The company had no alternative waste processing facility available to prevent storage capacity exceedances, as required under their DEP permit. ADC also failed to submit a required radiation-monitoring plan.
Site visits in November 2003 and December 2003 showed continuing violations, as well as a new issue: failure to control access to the facility.
An administrative review by DEP showed that ADC also failed to pay $2,800 in annual permit fees from 2000 to 2004.
Under terms of the April 7, 2005, civil penalty assessment document, the $150,000 civil penalty has been paid to the state’s Solid Waste Abatement Fund.