In April 2004, DEP contacted more than 45 businesses that sent tires to the property to ask them to remove them. Ten waste tire generators hauled away more than 133,000 tires later that year.
However, 21 tire generators refused to remove waste tires dumped by their businesses and, last January, DEP filed a Complaint In Equity in Columbia County Court to require each generator to remove its share of waste tires.
Since that legal action, eight of the 21 generators removed 24,717 tires from the site. DEP currently is involved in litigation with the remaining 13 companies that are responsible for 500,000 waste tires.
In addition, Carbon Services Corp. Lehighton, PA, received a $299,970 grant last May to remove about 2,000 large, hard-to-dispose tires from the site. The tires, which are not suitable for conventional processing because each can weigh more than half a ton, will be baled, filled with concrete and placed off the Delaware coastline to act as an artificial reef in the Atlantic Ocean. That removal work is expected to begin Feb. 1.
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