Keystone Landfill to pay $600K for odor & other violations

The Keystone Sanitary Landfill will pay a nearly $600,000 civil penalty and undergo more than two dozen required corrective actions to mitigate its odors as part of a settlement reached Friday with the state Department of Environmental Protection. According to reports, the settlement is the culmination of 14 odor-related violations since January 2023, and nearly 1,000 odor complaints in seven months and at least 70 instances of DEP staff detecting offsite landfill gas and leachate odors attributed to the landfill in Dunmore and Throop.  The DEP said it will continue to monitor the landfill and investigate complaints to ensure it is reducing its odors. If the landfill fails to comply, it will be fined $250 to $500 per day for each violation, depending on the nature of the violation.