Dive summary:

• Sussex County in New Jersey will have to pay $8,000 to settle legal claims for illegal dumping that started decades ago when the contents of an illegal dump in a county highway garage were transferred to a landfill in Louisiana that was also considered illegal dumping.
• The illegal waste was first discovered more than two decades ago, the investigator found, among other things, 55-gallon steel drums of lead paint, the county was ordered to properly dispose of the material.
• The waste ended up in Louisiana at a landfill, which had previously been sued by the federal and state governments for illegal operations and was not permitted to take the waste from Sussex County.

From the article:

The contents of an illegal dump at a county highway garage, which were transferred to a landfill in Louisiana that was later found to also be illegal, will cost Sussex County $8,000 to settle legal claims.

The Board of Chosen Freeholders voted Wednesday on the settlement of a case that began more than two decades ago when state environmental officers "raided" the county garage in Lafayette, acting on a tip that illegal dumping had been going on behind the garage. ...