Dive summary:
- Resource Recovery, the operator of Rhode Island’s Central Landfill, is facing $190,000 in fines for toxic wastewater that was fed into the city’s water treatment facility through a landfill sewage line.
- Resource Recovery has blamed the leak on a new power plant, Broadrock Renewables, which runs on gas produced by the landfills waste.
- The fine has not yet been paid but the city expects the problem to be resolved in negotiations.
From the article:
The operator of Rhode Island's Central Landfill faces at least $190,000 in fines levied by Cranston for toxic waste-water that has flowed into the city's treatment facility through a landfill sewage line.
The fine was disclosed in litigation between the landfill's operator, the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corp., and the private company that has built a new power plant that runs on gas produced by the landfill's rotting waste. ...
