Lackawanna Transport Company, a J.
P. Mascaro & Sons related entity and the owner and permittee of the Wetzel
County Landfill in West Virginia’s northern panhandle region, serves customers
in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Armed with a new DEP landfill permit, with recent West Virginia Public Service
Commission approval for a dedicated disposal cell for Marcellus Shale drilling
waste, and with the facility being located in the heart of the West Virginia-Pennsylvania-Ohio
Marcellus/Utica Shale gas-producing
region where economic disposal of drilling waste is critical to the gas
industry, the future of the Wetzel County Landfill as a regional area disposal
option is bright, and it is well-positioned to provide residential, commercial,
institutional, industrial and Marcellus Shale drilling waste disposal services well
into the next century.
Leading
the disposal industry 25 years ago by permitting and developing its landfill
with a double synthetic protective liner system when West Virginia DEP
regulations only required a single synthetic liner system, the Wetzel County
Landfill today is again an industry leader in providing the most comprehensive
drilling waste processing and disposal options for the growing regional gas
industry.
Company
President, Pat Mascaro, said, “As a DEP-permitted landfill, we have for more
than a quarter century provided area residential, commercial and industrial
customers with economic and environmentally sound disposal options, and that
will always be a primary focus for our facility.But now, with the tremendous growth of the
Marcellus Shale industry in the West Virginia panhandle regional area, with
recent legislative changes, and with regulatory approval that allows the Wetzel
County Landfill to operate a dedicated disposal cell for drilling waste without
a tonnage limitation, we have been and will in the future be a primary facility
for drilling waste processing and disposal.”
Managed
by a registered professional engineer with years of experience in the landfill
industry, operated by dedicated local employees, and strategically located near
major transportation corridors, the Wetzel County Landfill first started
attracting gas industry customers in 2011, and its drilling waste business has
steadily increased since then, with new drilling waste customers taking
advantage of the Wetzel County Landfill’s economic processing and disposal
options.
With
separate “in-bound and out-bound” electronic scales, and with an efficient
administrative and operational staff, users of the landfill are in and out of
the facility quickly, with no long delays, which can be a common problem at
other landfills.More importantly, drilling
waste customers can bring both wet and dry drilling waste to the Wetzel County
Landfill.Dry drilling waste is
immediately disposed of without any processing, and the wet drilling waste is
taken to an on-site 240,000 square foot processing building where it is dried/stabilized
before being disposed of in a landfill cell.
“Being
able to handle both dry and wet drilling waste is a very attractive facility
feature to our gas industry customers,” said Director of Engineering, Ryan K.
Inch, P.E., “and they are happy to have a primary disposal facility with an
approved dedicated disposal cell for drilling waste in such close proximity to
their business operations,” added Inch.
The
Wetzel County Landfill is one of only ten non-public DEP-permitted landfills in
West Virginia; it has environmental control systems that exceed DEP
regulations; it is situated in close proximity to major transportation
corridors, businesses and industries; it is managed by a registered
professional engineer; it is an industry leader in the processing and disposal
of Marcellus/Utica Shale drilling waste; it has long-term disposal capacity
available for all of its customers; and it provides economic and efficient
disposal and processing services.
“Economic,
efficient and environmentally sound long-term disposal is important to the
regional municipalities, businesses and industries served by the Wetzel County
Landfill, particularly the gas drilling industry, which has a very strong
presence in our area,” said company President, Pat Mascaro.“Our facility in the northern panhandle
region already serves West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania gas industry
customers, and we look forward to our customer base growing in the future,”
Mascaro added.
With long-term disposal capacity
being critical to an integrated disposal company such as J. P. Mascaro &
Sons that competes successfully with the national waste companies, Mascaro is
well-positioned to serve its present and future customers for generations to
come with its four company-related DEP-permitted landfills – the Pioneer
Crossing Landfill in Berks County, Pennsylvania, the White Pines Landfill in
Columbia County, Pennsylvania, the Wetzel County Landfill in Wetzel County,
West Virginia, and the Brooke County Landfill in Brooke County, West Virginia –
each of which has disposal capacity that will take the company into the next
century, not to mention the long-term contractual disposal access Mascaro has
with the Keystone Landfill in the Scranton, Pennsylvania area, which is one of
the premier landfills in Pennsylvania.