JRL's recent letter to the editor declared the company's landfill leachates, tanker-trucked daily to a wastewater treatment plant on the shore of Penobscot River in Old Town meet all regulatory requirements.
As clean water advocates , from statewide NGOs to the Penobscot Indian Nation, note, Casella's hastily written letter to the editor from Casella's Toni King is more remarkable for what it doesn't say than what it does about its chemical brew.
Is Juniper Ridge Landfill leachate polluting the Penobscot River? You wouldn't know from Ms King's letter.
King's letter is filled with comforting phrases: "as required by law"... "carefully regulates"..."limits concentrations"..."requires monitoring"... "all applicable licensing criteria"... "compliant with state law"..
But those could be used to describe nuclear waste, or the tainted leachate from GAC Chemical's. shoreline waste dumps
Also along the way: there are so many other polluters, ours is such a minor portion. This reminds me of something then-
DEP Commissioner David Littell said early in the process. I don't have the exact words in front of me, but the essence was: The DEP does not exist to eliminate pollution; its job is to license pollution. Take this wherever it leads. Thanks to all for the work you are doing. Paul S. 207 907 0906
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