There’s concern in the Village of Atkinson that violations at the Atkinson Landfill Company, may have compromised leachate water around the landfill. On Monday, the Village of Atkinson Board of ...

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) - New Hanover County is filtering out per- and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFAS) at its landfill, according to sampling results from the NC Department of Environmental ...

KINGSTON — Federal, state and local government investment in recent years has helped Kingston revitalize its downtown waterfront, which slopes down to Rondout Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River.

The Atkinson Landfill has been shut down for almost a year now. In August 2013, the Village of Atkinson was told they could not continue to use the landfill because the owner said it was too high.

The Keystone Sanitary Landfill agreed to a $15,000-plus settlement with the state Department of Environmental Protection after it regularly stored too much leachate in its lagoons in 2023 and 2024.

The state is investigating what may be its largest-ever spill of leachate from a landfill –the North Country Environmental Services facility in Bethlehem, owned by Vermont waste company Casella. The ...