Dive Summary:
- Landfill managers in the Youngstown, Ohio area are looking to expand their companies into the gas and oil drilling field by accepting drilling mud and rock waste from this industry.
- Wells in the area are creating about 60 to 80 tons of drilling waste each day for up to 25 days, which will be transported to a landfill for disposal.
- An annual landfill report cites that waste volumes in southeast Ohio landfills increased greatly from 2011 to 2012 as a direct result of the oil and gas waste being brought to area landfills.
From the article:
“We’re on the cusp of things breaking,” said Jerry Ross, senior district manager for Waste Management Inc., which operates the Mahoning Landfill in Springfield Township.
“With the opening of some of the fractionation plants in Carroll and Harrison counties, production is going to jump tremendously,” said Ross.
Six additional wells are being drilled at the landfill, and all of their waste will be dumped in the landfill, said Mike Heher, manager of Allied Waste Services’ Carbon-Limestone Landfill in Poland.
