Waste Disposal Company Owner Pleads Guilty To Illegal Dumping

An Egg Harbor Township, N.J., man entered a plea agreement for illegally dumping crushed concrete and construction debris at a cleaned-up dumpsite in the Elwood section of the township.

Steve Waszen, president of Magic Disposal, agreed to pay $49,000 in fines and will clean up the site, known as Perona Brothers junkyard.

He has 10 days to do it from the Dec. 16 agreement signed off on by Municipal Court Judge Henry Broome. After that, Waszen has until March to remove trailers, and by April everything must be off the property, according to the agreement.

Waszen must address any environmental health and safety issues associated with the cleanup. That includes the removal of any materials from tanks and gas cylinders. All scrap metal must be sorted and removed from the site.

Around Dec. 27, a separate agreement will be executed by Waszen regarding cleanup and repayment of funds spent by the Atlantic County Division of Public Health to clean up tires are the site.

In October a municipal complaint was filed on behalf of the Mullica Township Police Department, the Zoning Officer and the Atlantic County Division of Public Health.

Waszen, was named along with co-defendants Michael Perona and Henry Prior - employees of the waste disposal company, in the complaint.

The complaints alleged that on Oct. 17, Prior dumped construction debris at the site at the Perona Brothers junkyard property.

The township also sent a summons to Waszen, Prior's supervisor. The complaint against Perona will be held in abeyance pending the performance of the cleanup. Press of Atlantic City