Keystone Landfill

Site Background

The Keystone Landfill is a 714-acred landfill that applied for a major permit modification in 2014 to expand its facility on its existing permitted area of 345-acres in the Boroughs of Dunmore and Throop in Lackawanna County.

Resources and Links

• Keystone Landfill Response to Technical Deficiency Letter (Technical Review Phase) The landfill’s response to the technical deficiency letter the department sent out in September. The response addresses the issues the department raised during the review process.

• Keystone Landfill Technical Deficiency Letter (Technical Review Phase)
  The Department’s Technical Deficiency Letter as part of the technical review phase of Keystone Landfill’s 2014 permit application for expansion. The letter requests more information from the landfill owner so the department can proceed with a review of the application.

• Major Permit Modification Application Leachate Management

• Major Permit Modification Acceptance Letter – Leachate Management

• Administrative Incompleteness Letter

• Keystone Sanitary Landfill Environmental Assessment Letter

• NPDES Permit Application

• Water Quality Management Permit Application

Keystone Landfill Response to DEP 2019 Environmental Assessment

• KSL Plans 2020 Submission
• Transmittal Letters
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3

DOH/ATSDR Health Consultation Report

• Final DOH/ATSDR Health Consultation Report
• Keystone Sanitary Landfill Fact Sheet
• Keystone Sanitary Landfill Executive Summary
• Keystone Sanitary Landfill Health Consultation
• PA DEP Air Monitoring Results

 Permit Application for Expansion (2014/15)

• Keystone Landfill Response Second Environmental Assessment Letter
• Keystone Landfill Second Environmental Assessment Letter
• PADEP First Environmental Assessment Review Letter
• KSL EA Response Volume 1-Response to General Comments and Form D Comments 
• KSL EA Response Volume 2-Response to Harms 1 through 15
• KSL EA Response Volume 3-Response to Harms 16 through 23 and response to all Benefit comments
• KSL EA Response-Revised Form I and Stormwater Calculations
• KSL EA Response-Revised PH3 Plan Set
• Keystone Landfill Powerpoint
• Keystone Landfill Permit Renewal
• Keystone Landfill Fact Sheet
• Keystone Landfill Plain Language Summary
• PADOH-Keystone Landfill Health Assessment Update (October 2015)
• Plan set (Grading, Leachate Collection, Construction/Operation/Closure, Gas Management System, Liner Construction, Stormwater Management, Erosion & Sedimentation Control, Baseline Sections, Site Profiles, Site Boring, Site Mining and Site Geologic & Hydrogeologic Plans)
• Geo-Physical Logs (Site Subsurface Information)
• Volume 1 (General Information Form and Certifications
• Volume 2 (Environmental Assessment for Municipal Waste Facilities)
• Volume 3 (Soils and Gas Management)
• Volume 4 (Geologic, Radiation, Maps, and Emergency Contingency Plan)
• Volume 5 (Hydrogeological Ground Water Analysis
• Volume 6 (Mineral Deposits, Operations plan, Water Monitoring, and Liner System)
• Volume 7 (Leachate Management, Closure, and Meteorological data)