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If the landfill is as safe as Waste Management would have you believe..
why the gas mask and body suit?

History & Facts of Pottstown Landfill

1948 - Rinehart Family

1984 - Waste Management

First 36 years - about 40 acres

(16 years) grew to 303 acres -

5 expansions (1 vertical)
West Pottsgrove Township - almost half dump
20 Acres in Douglass Berks Township

50 Feet Upward - According to WM - like a two story house.
5.2 million tons of waste in 5 to 7 years - Worth about $286
million dollars in potential revenues to Waste Management.

300 Acres Already Landfilled, 300 or more Acres Listed for Upper Pottsgrove Township - Where are the other 200 + Acres?

accepting waste containing many Hazardous substances
Contaminated Soil
Asbestos
Incinerator Ash
Construction & Demolition Debris
Sewage Sludge (Including Industrial and Radioactive Sludge)

Can contain 70,000 chemicals (including pesticides, PCB's, dioxins, etc.), heavy metals, viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens