Dive summary:

• Advanced Disposal Solutions, the new owner of the Mount Joy Township landfill, has been fined $108,686 for two untreated leachate leaks last year.
• Last November, Veolia, the former owner of the landfill, put leachate tanks and a handling system at the landfill but never properly installed, certified or tested the system.
• The mistake resulted in 2,500 gallons of untreated leachate making its way out of the landfill in early November; less than a month later, a crack in a plastic pipe resulted in 4,600 gallons of leaked leachate.

From the article:

The state Department of Environmental Protection levied the fine against Advanced Disposal Solutions. The Philadelphia-based company purchased Chicago-based Veolia Environmental Services in November 2012.

DEP said that on Nov. 1, 2012, Veolia placed leachate tanks and a leachate handling system into service at the landfill without properly installing, certifying and testing the system according to regulations.

That resulted in a 2,500-gallon release of untreated leachate, some of which entered an unnamed tributary to Little Chiques Creek. The discharge was not discovered until landfill employees arrived for work the next morning, DEP said. ...