What Stinks in Endicott? Part II: Waste Hauling between Williamsport PA and Endicott NY (photos)

This is part II of II looking at waste hauling into and/or out of Endicott Interconnect's Waste Treatment Facility in downtown Endicott, NY

Go to Part I: http://nyfriendsofcleanairandwater.blogspot.com/2013/10/photos-trucks-bringing-leachate-from.html

These photos were all taken Sept 28, 2013, starting @ ~10:15 am.

Isn't Saturday Morning a strange day for a trucker to be hauling wastes?

This truck is based in Belefonte PA, near Williamsport, a region which is being heavily developed with gas drilling and horizontal hydrofracking. On this day this truck was followed ~2 hours south to just north of Williamsport, at Trout Run PA, where it was lost.

While we were unable to determine whether this truck was picking up chemical wastes, or dropping them off, isn't it strange for there to be a waste-stream connected between Williamsport PA area (Frack-Central) and Endicott?

Let us recall that for many years, we've heard rumors that the owners of Endicott Interconnect (EIT) have wanted to import PA drilling wastes into the village of Endicott to process.

• http://marcellusdrilling.com/2011/10/rumor-endicott-company-may-want-to-treat-fracking-wastewater

• http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20111011/NEWS01/110110411/Endicott-Interconnect-linked-possible-local-wastewater-facility

We have been told by multiple trustworthy sources (none who would comment on the record) that landfill leachate from Seneca Falls Landfill (which receives drilling wastes from PA) is being treated at the EIT Waste Treatment Plant.

Can a member of the mainstream press call EIT and verify this?

Endicott Village Trustee Nirchi

It is apparently "common knowledge" that EIT has been treating leachate from Broome County Landfill for some time, as this was revealed by Trustee Joseph Nirchi and Mayor John Bertoni at the Village Trustee Meeting 8-14-2013. Nirchi, who is an Endicott Village Trustee, is also manager of EIT/Huron Emergency Services.

We have also been told by confidential sources that "EIT is processing 'frack wastes'". IS IT TRUE?

There are several Village of Endicott residents keeping an eye on these trucks (and the FOUL STENCH coming out of them). These photos were provided by one of the observers. (Thanks!)

What stinks in Endicott? Sign in a local business.

Inside the EIT Waste Treatment Facility @ Franklin Street

Here's all the DOT numbers

Davidson Bros. Belefonte, PA (near Williamsport)

Leaving Franklin St.

Leaving

Trailer Detail-- strange, almost like a sand truck,
not a normal liquid waste truck. Hmmm.

Turning on to Oak Hill

North St. westbound, about to turn south onto McKinley.
Notice the absence of DOT Hazardous Materials placards.

Pennsylvania XP-09987 trailer license

On this day, this truck was followed from Endicott (A)
to Trout Run PA (B) where the truck was lost.
The trucker was based in Belefonte PA (C).
Who can explain WHAT STINKY CHEMICAL WASTE
is being shipped between Endicott and Williamsport??!!

What's the old rule about not eating near where you take a crap?
(or in this case, drinking from the same spot where you dump chemical wastes?)

IBM/EIT's Chemical Waste Treatment Facility legally discharges into the
Susquehanna River by two SPDES permits issued by NYSDEC.

The discharge location is coincident with a shallow well on South St.
which is the Village of Endicott's primary drinking water source.

On Feb 26, 2013 of between 4,000 gallons and 17,000 gallons when a valve rusted and broke, draining a tank containing untreated leachate into the ground, storm sewers, and the Susquehanna River. DEC Spill Incident #1215896 

EIT's Rusty Tank

EIT's rusty tank

A valve broke and this rusty tank leaked between 4,000 gallons and 17,000 gallons into the Susquehanna River

EIT's rusty tank that sprung a leak in Feb 2013

Notice the location of the storm drain.

EIT dumps (legally?) into storm sewers as part of their
State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit.
--How's that for Orwellian Doublespeak?
** NOTE the proximity of the Village of Endicott Drinking Water Well!! Is this a good idea?

EIT dumps (legally?) into storm sewers as part of their
State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit.
--How's that for Orwellian Doublespeak?
** NOTE the proximity of the Village of Endicott Drinking Water Well!! Is this a good idea?

Leaked document from DEC showing (partial) chemical composition of Seneca Meadows Leachate.
Note this is a "Pilot Program".

Does that say 80,000 gallons per day?!
(gulp) That's 14 truckloads @ 5,600 gal/truck. EVERY DAY!

Discharge location for 2 SPDES waste discharge permits

Discharge location for 2 SPDES waste discharge permits

Public Water Supply -- NO DUMPING! (yet this is the same spot where the storm sewers which Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Inc (EIT) dumps in to drains into the Susquehanna River!

Go to Part I: http://nyfriendsofcleanairandwater.blogspot.com/2013/10/photos-trucks-bringing-leachate-from.html