FAQs
Select a question from the list below:
- What’s the status of the expansion application?
- What will happen next?
- What are you doing to control odors at the landfill?
- Are there any harmful chemicals in the odor-masking agents being used in the landfill’s odor control program?
- What are you doing to hold down dirt, dust, and litter?
- Isn’t it true that landfills adversely affect the value of neighboring residential properties?
- Do landfills pollute the air? What toxins are being emitted?
What gases are being emitted and are they harmful? - Does the combustion of methane gas at the landfill’s flares release any harmful by-products into the air?
- Isn’t it true that areas around landfills have disproportionately high cancer rates? Is there a cancer cluster in Mountaineer Village?
- I’ve heard that all landfill liners and leachate collection systems ultimately fail. Is that true?
- Are there any toxic chemicals in leachate? How long will leachate be monitored after the landfill closes?
- Are there any legally hazardous chemicals being disposed of at the landfill? If so, what are they?
- Is any radioactive waste being disposed of at the landfill?
- Will the expansion create any impact from runoff on Swamp Creek and the Conestoga River?
- Is there any danger in the fact that the landfill is located in “close proximity” to the abandoned Grace Mine?
- I remember a report, indicating that the landfill drains into a large aquifer that supplies drinking water for much of the area. What about that?
- What would happen if a problem develops after the landfill closes and if Conestoga or its parent company goes bankrupt? How would clean-up funding be assured?
- What are the economic benefits created by the operation of Conestoga Landfill?
- The economics may be positive, but aren’t landfills bad for the environment?
- Why can’t we just close all the landfills and dispose of our trash some other way?
- Why do we have to have a landfill here?