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Dioxin Emissions from Pennsylvania Incinerators

Source: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Bureau of Air Quality’s
Section 111(d)/129 State Plan for Large Municipal Waste Combustors (MWCs)

 

Harrisburg’s incinerator is pumping out 15-140 times more dioxin than the total of the other 3 PA incinerators for which comparable data is available

 

Incinerator               Dioxin emissions
                             (ng/dscm)
American Ref-Fuel                51
Wheelabrator Falls                3
York County                       5
Harrisburg (1997 tests)         909
Harrisburg (1994, 1996 tests)  8231
Facility NameUnitEmission RateaDate Measured
Wheelabrator Falls Inc.
(09-0013)		10.977 ng/dscmAug 13, 1997
21.59 ng/dscmAug 13, 1997
The Harrisburg Materials,
Energy, Recycling
Resource
and and Recovery Facility
(22-2007)		11157 ng/dscmJune 1-2, 1994
27074 ng/dscmJuly 24-25, 1996
1321 ng/dscm**November 12-13, 1997
2588 ng/dscm**September 15-16, 1997
American Ref-Fuel
(Delaware County
Resource Recovery Facility,
formerly operated by Westinghouse)
(23-0004)		11.19 ng/dscmMay 15-16, 1997
22.19 ng/dscmMay 21, 1997
30.744 ng/dscmMay 16, 19, 1997
42.72 ng/dscmJuly 24, 30, 1997
528.60 ng/dscmMay 19, 21, 1997
616.0 ng/dscmMay 15-16,1997
Lancaster County Solid
Waste Management Authority
(36-2013)		10.60 ng/Nm3*May 6-7, 1997
2.085 ng/Nm3*May 8, 1997
3.053 ng/Nm3*May 9-12, 1997
Montenay Montgomery Ltd.
(46-0010)		12.25 ng/Nm3May 6-8, 1997
21.91 ng/Nm3May 6-7, 1997
York County Solid Waste &
Recovery Authority
(67-2006)		12.33 ng/dscmMar 25, 1997
21.114 ng/dscmMar 25, 1997
31.909 ng/dscmMar 28, 1997

Note:

“ng/dscm” means nanograms per dry standard cubic meter

* 1989 EPA Toxic Equivalencies (TEQ)

** Test results were not reviewed by the Department

30 ng/dscm total mass = 0.5 ng/dscm dioxin/furan TEQ

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