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December 21, 2005
Department of Environmental Quality - Guidance Memo No. 04-2005
Sanitary Landfill Siting Relative to a Public Water Supply Intake or Reservoir
The purpose of this guidance is to develop procedures and criteria for the protection of a public water supply or a reservoir in the vicinity of a sanitary landfill. The guidance provides landfill design elements that must be provided in order to site a landfill between one and three miles upgradient of a surface water or groundwater public water supply intake or reservoir. If a permit application for a new municipal solid waste (MSW) (sanitary) landfill provides the required design elements, then the director may approve siting of a new solid waste management facility that is located one to three miles upgradient of a public water supply intake or reservoir. Sufficient information must be provided demonstrating that a sanitary facility is greater than three miles away, or is downgradient from a public water supply or reservoir in order to avoid the additional design requirements under the law. Also, a new sanitary facility cannot be sited closer than a one mile radius of a public water supply intake or reservoir.
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INFORMATION AVAILABLE:
To request copies of NSWMA’s Facts on File information sheets entitled “Municipal Solid Waste” and “Municipal Solid Waste Management” dated October 2005, please e-mail Mardea at mricks@joyceengineering.com with contact information, and she will be happy to mail them to you.
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