The Alabama Department of Environmental Management issued a consent order to Arrowhead Landfill for violating several of the agency rules.
According to the consent order, ADEM visited the landfill to perform an inspection in March. During the inspection, which took place over a two-day period, ADEM found the landfill to be in violation of the following:
Failure to follow requirements to be confined to as small of an area as possible within a single working day. ADEM fined Arrow Landfill $30,600 for the violations. They also gave them sixty days to come up with a “Corrective Action Plan.” “They say the reason they are allowing Arrowhead to do that is because of so many citizen complaints about dust,” resident Mary Schaeffer said. “Citizens have not complained about dust since they stopped taking in coal ash.”“The odor is actually a chemical called hydrogen sulfide, which is extremely toxic,” Schaeffer said.
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