"STOP THE LANDFILL"

or THIS COULD BE THE FUTURE...

RRLLC proposes to bring 5,000 tons of trash per day for 28 years to this Central Pennsylvania site. If approved, RRLLC will be burying 40 million tons of garbage at the gateway to the Pennsylvania Wilds. This landfill will permanently affect a popular wilderness and recreation area and the small, rural communities that surround it. We must "Stop the Landfill" or be subjected to

Public health and safety, aesthetic impacts, and inevitable groundwater and surface water contamination. The USEPA admits all landfill liners will eventually leak.

150,000 gallons of leachate (i.e., garbage juice) containing carcinogens, teratogens, and mutagens being released into the Red Moshannon Creek daily.
 

Economic harms in the form of lost outdoor recreation revenues, increased costs for road repairs, and additional costs to our volunteer emergency responders for increased emergency service calls.

According to an October 2005 report from DEP, many PA landfills contain radioactive tritium in their leachate. It seems dilution is the only solution to this radioactive form of water.

Methane and VOC migration— These chemicals are public health hazards, lead to explosions and poor air quality (i.e., these are the primary ingredients that cause ground-level ozone, or "smog"), and are toxic to all plant life, including the surrounding forests.

Illegal roadside dumping, dust and windblown litter at the landfill and along approach routes.

Additional heavy truck traffic along all ingress and egress routes—500 truck trips per day—from an industry with an appalling level of safety violations.

Annual emissions of hundreds of tons of particulate matter released into the air we breathe. Particulate matter is known to cause and further aggravate existing respiratory ailments.

Increased diesel fumes promoting allergies and asthma attacks to those exposed.

Nonstop noise from 24/7 operations of heavy equipment and machinery.

Odors from the site and from the trucks traveling to and from the site.

Increased populations of carriers of disease (i.e., vectors) including insects, rodents, and birds: Ornithologists claim the best place in the United States to observe hundreds of varieties of gulls is at the mega-dump in Bucks County; Gulls by the thousands scavenge there daily.

Condemnation of adjacent/nearby property for future land use including the Snow Shoe Rail-Trail.

Decrease in property values including homes in the villages of Moshannon, Grassflat, Lance, and Drifting, and the 100+ seasonal properties adjacent to the site. Although these areas would be immediately affected, property values in communities along ingress and egress routes will also be affected.

Impaired view aesthetics: Would you rather see a huge mountain of garbage from I-80 or a mature, forested mountainside when entering or exiting Centre and Clearfield Counties?

Destruction of wildlife habitat including nearly 11 acres of wetlands, forest fragmentation next to the Moshannon State Forest, and introduction of invasive and non-native species contaminating the gene pool and competing for space.

Destruction of archaeological/historical sites including the Peale Tunnel, Viaduct Bridge, and the ghost town of Peale.

Loss of social capital as family, friends and neighbors move away seeking a healthier, safer community.

If this project gets approval the surrounding communities
will live in the shadow of a dump that never dies.
 

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