CLARIFICATION: This article has been edited from its original version that indicated this was a public meeting with a Q&A session. The meeting is intended for public officials from each township where CES Landfill is located and there will not be a public Q&A session.
Pennsylvania’s Dept. of Environmental Protection will host a Local Municipality Involvement meeting on Thursday evening in Newtown, Reilly Township, to discuss the proposed expansion of CES Landfill.
CES Landfill wants to expand its geographic operation, what it’s calling a Southwest Expansion.
The landfill’s plan is not to increase tonnage accepted at the facility, rather just to expand the land on which it operates. CES says without this expansion, it’ll run out of room at its current location by 2029.
If expansion is approved, CES Landfill says it can operate until about 2058.
Reilly Township is hosting the meeting at Newtown Fire Hall on Oct. 24, starting at 6 p.m. However, DEP has invited officials of all three townships where CES Landfill operates: Reilly, Foster, and Frailey.
According to Reilly Township officials, there will be a question-and-answer session with DEP at this meeting on Thursday. CES officials are expected to be in attendance.
Reilly Township, specifically, is also pondering a possible second landfill there, with Waste Management reportedly looking to purchase land at Blackwood.
READ MORE:
- CES Landfill Applies for Major Expansion; Public Comment Period Opens
- Schuylkill Commissioners Say They’re Opposed to Proposed Blackwood Landfill
- Reilly Township Residents Not Happy With Prospect of a Waste Management Landfill at Blackwood
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Val
October 24, 2024 at 2:17 pm
Here is a sad story of how environmental protection works in Schuylkill County. I filed a petition to the Schuylkill County Court of Common Pleas. 60+ pages petition. I received a letter of deficiency today from the prothonotary office that I MUST “supply the original and 3 copies along with 2 stamped self addressed envelope to mail your paperwork back”. That’s a hell of paperwork: 240+ pages plus the envelopes. A lot of innocent trees grew to produce that amount of paper. While other PA counties do filing electronically, Schuylkill Courthouse bureaucrats are still stuck in a prehistoric way to manage the paperwork. So very sad..