PUBLIC NOTICE – 422
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
NOTICE OF PROPOSED MODIFICATION OF A MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE
LANDFILL PERMIT UNDER THE
Escambia
County Environmental Corporation has applied for a Solid Waste permit
modification and continue to operate a Municipal Solid Waste landfill to be
known as the Timberlands Landfill (Permit
27-08). The proposed Timberlands
Landfill solid waste disposal permit modification involves constructing an on-site
biological leachate treatment system consisting of a series of constructed
wetlands. Waste stream for the Timberlands Landfill will remain nonhazardous
solid wastes, noninfectious putrescible and nonputrescible wastes including but
not limited to household garbage, construction and demolition debris,
commercial waste, appliances, tires, trees, limbs, stumps, sludge, paper and
other similar type materials. Special
waste and industrial waste approved by ADEM may also be accepted. The service area for the Timberlands Landfill
shall be is Autauga, Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington,
Crenshaw, Dallas, Elmore, Escambia, Lowndes, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe,
Montgomery, Perry, Washington, Wilcox, Pike, Coffee, Dale, Henry, Geneva and
Houston Counties in the State of Alabama; Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa,
Walton and Bay Counties in the State of Florida; Jackson, George, Harrison,
Stone and Hancock Counties in the State of Mississippi. The maximum average daily volume of waste
disposed at the Timberland Landfill will be 2500 tons a day.
Timberlands Sanitary Landfill is described as
being located in the Sections 5 and 6, Township 3 North, Range 9 East in
Copies of the landfill
application, plans and proposed permits are available for public inspection electronically
via http://www.adem.state.al.us/PublicNotice/PublicNotice.htm,
and at the following location Monday – Friday (except legal holidays), 8:00 am
to 5:00 pm. A nominal fee for copying
and/or mailing may be charged.
Arrangements for copying should be made in advance.
Russell
A. Kelly, Chief
Permits
and Services Division
ADEM
[Mailing
address:
(334) 271-7714
Persons wishing to
comment may do so, in writing, to the Department's named contact above within 35
days following the publication date of this notice. In order to affect final decisions, comments must offer technically
substantial information that is applicable to the proposed permit.
A written request for
a public hearing may also be filed within that 35-day period and must state the
nature of the issues proposed to be raised in the hearing. The Director shall hold a public hearing upon
receipt of a significant number of technical requests.
After consideration of all written comments,
review of any public hearing record, and consideration of the requirements of
the Alabama Solid Wastes Disposal Act hand applicable regulations, the
Department will make a final determination.
The Department will develop a response to comments, which will become
part of the public record and will be available to persons upon request. Notice will be sent to any person requesting
notice of the final action.
The Department maintains a list of
interested individuals who are mailed legal notices regarding proposed permits.
If you wish to receive such notices, contact the Permits & Services
Division via telephone (334-271-7714), e-mail (permitsmail@adem.state.al.us), or postal service (
This notice is hereby given this January 30, 2008 by authorization of
the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
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Onis "Trey" Glenn, III |
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Director |