[CPEO-MEF] DISPOSAL: Harford County (MD) incinerator at Aberdeen Proving Ground

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Harford bill may allow incinerator near park
Hearing, vote Tuesday on buying site by Cunion Field

By Jonathan Pitts
Baltimore Sun
November 30, 2009

Harford County residents will have a chance to raise questions Tuesday 
about a controversial bill that would allow the county to build a 
waste-to-energy incinerator near Cunion Field, an Edgewood park popular 
with local children and their families.

The Harford County Council is to vote on the measure, Bill No. 09-36, at 
a public hearing at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The bill would allow the county to 
purchase Prologis Park, a 113-acre commercial lot in Edgewood, for $4.9 
million.

The intent of the acquisition, administrators say, is to allow the 
county to create a new access road to an existing waste-to-energy 
incinerator at Aberdeen Proving Ground, a facility that has turned 
Harford County solid waste into energy-producing steam since 1986.

The county, state and Army have been working on a deal that would 
greatly expand the site, which stands on 13 acres at the Army base. The 
$400 million expansion would quadruple the incinerator's capacity to 
1,500 tons a day, double the number of delivery trucks in and out of the 
site, and open the facility to waste from other counties.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/harford/bal-md.ha.incinerator30nov30,0,6194097.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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