Toxic Donations coming to Vermont (Updated)

UPDATE: (Vermont will not accept the toxic waste after all.Wasted donations?
“It comes down to, we don’t agree with the way that EPA has characterized the waste,” said Dave DiDomenico, a regulator in the state Solid Waste Program. The Interstate Waste Services landfill in Moretown is not designed or certified to take hazardous waste.)Free Press

Vermont's Burlington Free Press takes note today for Vermonters of the imminent arrival of approximately 33,000 tons of contaminated soil. This hazardous soil will be shipped to Interstate Waste Service’s Moretown landfill. The dioxin-contaminated soil is coming from a Massachusetts Superfund site where wood was treated chemically. This ARRA funded cleanup will make way for a 120 space parking lot. According to a Foxboro Ma. Newspaper, it will take roughly one thousand round trips and 100 work days to haul it away.

The soil is a hazardous “substance” according to Federal EPA and must be removed from the Massachusetts site. However in logic that’s worthy of Catch 22 the soil is not a hazardous “waste” and therefore can be dumped in Vermont. A manager at Interstate Waste’s Moretown site couldn’t say “offhand” if they tested leachate for dioxins.
Vermont Powerless unless the soil is reclassified?
The soil is a hazardous “substance” according to Federal EPA and must be removed from the Massachusetts site. However, in logic that’s worthy of Catch 22, the soil is not a hazardous “waste” and therefore can be dumped in Vermont.
Vermont’s ANR Dave DiDomenico says unless the Federal EPA reclassifies the soil as hazardous, it can do nothing to stop the dumping in Moretown.

“They are private landfills. We can’t force them to take a waste, and we can’t not allow them to take something that isn’t hazardous,” he said.

Douglas’ Waste Service Donations
In July last year Vermont's Seven Days and Green Mountain Daily noted that among other donations Governor Douglas had revieved large (by Vermont standards) $2,000 campaign donations from the Interstate Waste Service Moretown landfill and a small landfill in South Hadley Mass. The town of South Hadley owns the landfill and it is operated by Interstate Waste Services.