DEP Denies Waste Permit Application for Proposed Transfer Station in The City of Chester.
Conshohocken (June 4, 1998) Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
(DEP) Waste Management Program Manager Ronald C. Furlan today announced that
DEP has denied the application submitted by Ogborne Waste Removal Inc, for a
proposed construction and demolition (C&D) transfer station at 10-12 Reaney
Street in Chester, PA Delaware County.
“Following the department’s initial technical review and a January Public
Meeting with the community, DEP notified the company in February that its
application was incomplete and inaccurate,” Furlan said. “Ogborne was given
90 days to provide DEP with the required information to continue our review of
the application, but failed to do so.”
The June 2 DEP letter based the application denial on 10 issues, including
inaccurate compliance history, failure to demonstrate compliance with
requirements relating to proof of notice to contiguous landowners and an
incomplete environmental assessment particularly with respect to traffic, air
quality impact and environmental/social/economic benefits.
Other issues included failure to demonstrate that the proposed facility is
located outside of an area where transfer facilities are prohibited and
incomplete information regarding noise nuisance control.
Once again Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living has successfully
organized, and empowered our community into action!! We are sending a strong
message to any waste company that if they intend to come here we will present
information on their compliance history, shading dealings, and the truth on
how they will disrupt our community. We kicked his butt back to New Jersey
where his children live. The people united shall NEVER be defeated!!!
Thanks to all who sent in those much needed letters of opposition, the phone
calls, faxes, special thanks to EBIC, again, and all our well wishers.
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