Along the Banks of the Mon River, Fracking Waste in a Landfill Once Again Poses a Pollution Problem - Inside Climate News
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This story was originally published by The Allegheny Front, a public radio program covering environmental issues in Western Pennsylvania. On a rainy morning, Mike Frederick showed off the Belle Vernon Municipal Authority’s sewage treatment plant, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh.  “This distribution box is where all the sewage comes in,” said Frederick, an operator […]

A judge barred the landfill from sending its “leachate” wastewater to treatment plants in the region. Now the company proposes to treat it on-site and then release it into the Monongahela River.

By Reid Frazier

This story was originally published by The Allegheny Front, a public radio program covering environmental issues in Western Pennsylvania.

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