Keystone Landfill
Keystone Landfill National Pollutant Discharge and Elimination System Permit Application
Municipal Review Letter
Keystone Landfill’s major permit modification application to discharge up to 200,00 gallons a day of effluent from the Reverse Osmosis leachate treatment system to Little Roaring Brook Creek in Dunmore Borough, Lackawanna County. The proposed discharge point is located just off of East Drinker Street in the Borough of Dunmore.
Keystone Landfill Air Quality Plan Approval
Air Quality plan approval which allows Keystone Landfill to continue to utilize the existing flares (5 enclosed and 3 portable) on the landfill property to control landfill gas (methane) generated by landfill operations and send the generated landfill gas to the Assai gas plant on site to be processed into pipeline quality gas (renewable natural gas).
Archaea Energy Air Quality Plan Approval
Air Quality plan approval which allows Archaea Energy to construct and operate the Assai Energy gas processing facility on Keystone Landfill property. This permit allows Assai to convert the landfill gas to renewable natural gas.
Phase III Major Permit Modification
This allows Keystone Landfill to expand on its existing facility in the boroughs of Dunmore and Throop in Lackawanna County and increase its disposal capacity.
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's response to department’s second Technical Deficiency Letter from February 2021.
Keystone Landfill Second Technical Deficiency Letter
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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.
Keystone Landfill Response to DEP 2019 Environmental Assessment
DOH/ATSDR Health Consultation Report
Permit Application for Expansion (2014/15)
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Keystone Landfill Response Second Environmental Assessment Letter
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Keystone Landfill Second Environmental Assessment Letter
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PADEP First Environmental Assessment Review Letter
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KSL EA Response Volume 1-Response to General Comments and Form D Comments
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KSL EA Response Volume 2-Response to Harms 1 through 15
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KSL EA Response Volume 3-Response to Harms 16 through 23 and response to all Benefit comments
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KSL EA Response-Revised Form I and Stormwater Calculations
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KSL EA Response-Revised PH3 Plan Set
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Keystone Landfill Powerpoint
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Keystone Landfill Permit Renewal
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Keystone Landfill Fact Sheet
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Keystone Landfill Plain Language Summary
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PADOH-Keystone Landfill Health Assessment Update (October 2015)
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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)
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Geo-Physical Logs (Site Subsurface Information)
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Volume 1 (General Information Form and Certifications
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Volume 2 (Environmental Assessment for Municipal Waste Facilities)
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Volume 3 (Soils and Gas Management)
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Volume 4 (Geologic, Radiation, Maps, and Emergency Contingency Plan)
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Volume 5 (Hydrogeological Ground Water Analysis
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Volume 6 (Mineral Deposits, Operations plan, Water Monitoring, and Liner System)
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Volume 7 (Leachate Management, Closure, and Meteorological data)