Letter Health Consultation: Brookhaven Landfill Petition, Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, September 30, 2009

摘要

The Landfill, one of five active SWMFs on Long Island, is approximately 532 acres in area and has been in operation since 1974. Initially, municipal solid waste and incinerator ash were accepted; however, only construction and demolition waste and incinerator ash has been accepted at the Landfill since in 1996. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) listed the Landfill on the Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Sites in 1987, and subsequently removed the Landfill from the list in 1992 when it was determined that there was no documented historical disposal of hazardous waste at the Landfill. Questions regarding the integrity of the capped portions of the Landfill, the effectiveness of leachate collection efforts, and the overall effect of the Landfill on the surrounding community have been raised by local citizens for many years, and several investigations of groundwater contamination by leachate from the Landfill have been conducted. In particular, a formal petition was submitted to ATSDR in 1993 claiming that Landfill operations were adversely affecting groundwater and air quality in the area. In response to that petition, a Health Consultation (HC) on the Landfill was completed in 2005 (ATSDR, 2005a).