Concerns about landfill plans to send treated water into watershed - Newswatch 16

Here's a recent story on WNEP-TV on the Landfill's proposal to send up to 200,000 gallons of leachate a day into our rivers.

As Bernie McGurl, executive director of the Lackawanna River Conservation Association, notes, "This watershed, Lackawanna County, has borne an undue burden for municipal waste for the entire northeast Middle Atlantic region. And what do we get for now? Just more burden, more burden? Where's the benefit? I don't see any benefit to it."

You can watch the entire story at:https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/concerns-about-landfill-plans-to-send-treated-water-into-watershed-keystone-landfill-leachate-wastewater-wateshed-lackawanna-river-roaring-brook/523-03da4bd8-8765-4552-ab2a-67fe6d92953e?fbclid=IwAR1VlICsenXPsEdSQ6ZfIEUHfvGZZBxuWjtTF-AzXoOV7pfJ_rJ6DroxFSA