Herald - Lantern Dispatch 2 April '86 5

Landfill Closure Aid Plan Proposed

SWAINTON - The Cape May County Municipal Utilities is preparing draft legislation to create a Landfill Closure Assistance Program to provide $125 million in grants and loans to local governments and to private landfill owners/operators for investigation, monitoring, closure and long-term care of previously terminated, but uncapped, inadequately closed landfills throughout the state. At the same time, follow-

ing a meeting with MUA Chairman William F.X. Band. Solid Waste Manager Theodore F. O'Neill and other authority officials. N.J. Department of Environmental Protection Commission Richard T. Dewling has suggested the possibility of a demonstration project to determine the costs and problems of properly closing previously terminated landfills. ••INADEQUATE closure of previously terminated

landfills represents a serious and immediate threat to the natural environment of the state and to the health and welfare of its residents." Band wrote in an introduction to data recently sent to the freeholders in every New Jersey county, the chairmen of key legislative committees and the League of Municipalities. On Feb. 6. the CMCMUA sponsored a statewide conference for county solid waste officials to consider the environmental and financial problems posed by the uncapped and improperly lined landfills. THROUGH responses from a survey initiated at the conference. Band said, the authority has detertnined that it will cost anywhere from $330 million to $500 million to close the 350 known landfills in New Jersey. In addition to the 350 known landfills, it is estimated that there are many others which were closed years ago and never showed up on statewide surveys. In 1985, Gov. Thomas H. Kean conditionally vetoed a landfill closure funding bill, cutting the anticipated aid from $30 million to $8 million. •WE PROPOSE tfSt a program of assistance begin immediately, in 1986," Band said, "with an appropriation of $17 million from the Sanitary Landfill Contingency Fund to supplement the money appropriated in last year's bill." According to Band, this $17 million could be repaid from a bond issue, which would be used as a method of long-term landfill closure and monitoring assistance.

The group of county landfill officials agreed, he said, that the debt service on this bond issue should come from a special landfill closure surcharge of $1.50 per ton on all solid waste disposed of in the state, including waste disposed of in future resource recovery facilities. -THIS PROBLEM of inadequately closed landfills and dumps leaching coi^ taminants into our groundwater," Band said, "may inevitablay become as severe a threat to our health and welfare, and to the state's vital groundwater resources, as toxic waste dumps." Band contended that "there is a progressive increase in danger of ultimate damage to the subterranean water quality with each day that these landfills and dumps remain uncapped." THE PROPOSED legislation for the state landfill Closure Assistance Fund will provide for a combination of state construction grants and low interest loans which will be made available' to local governments and private landfill owners/operators, as necessary, to supple ment local funds for proper landfill closures. "The group also supported a multi-year grant program to support local monitoring and research programs by county and municipal boards of health," Band said.

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