State OKs change at CWM allowing more waste to be landfilled

   State environmental regulators have approved a proposal for a thinner cap on CWM Chemical Services' landfill in Porter.

   The move allows the hazardous waste facility to accept more waste without increasing the landfill's height or acreage.

   CWM has requested permission from the state to expand by building another landfill, a move that can't be granted until a plan to guide disposal of hazardous waste statewide is completed.

   Read News Niagara Reporter Thomas J. Prohaska's full story on the issue.

   --Aaron Besecker

Comments

[Mike]

This is unfortunate. Bottom line is this means MORE toxic waste coming to our town.

[i liveheretoo]

Yes. This IS unfortunate. Moreso is that it (CWM company landfill) sits right ON-TOP-OF an old nuclear site called the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works or LOOW. This site even contains plutonium and other dangerous materials.