Delaware Landfill Cited for Accepting Asbestos

State regulators have issued a notice of violation to the Delaware Solid Waste Authority’s facility at Jones Crossroads accusing the landfill of improperly accepting material containing asbestos, according to a report in the Cape Gazette (Lewes, Del.).

Pat Canzano, the chief operating officer of the Delaware Solid Waste Authority, tells the paper that the landfill is attempting to find out if the facility actually accepted asbestos-containing material.

“The material, as it was presented to us, was construction and demolition waste,” he says. “We do inspections on the material that comes in, but we can’t possibly inspect every single load of material. It’s a random screening process.”

The paper reports that the notice of violation serves as warning and carries no penalty or fine.

Robert Hartman, an environmental engineer with the Solid and Hazardous Waste Division of Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC), tells the Cape Gazette that even if the material is in the landfill, it does not pose any health risks.