American Ecology Unit Wins Approval for Innovative Vertical Stacking Program for Waste Materials At Nevada Facility.BOISE, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 1999-- Joe Nagel, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of American Ecology Corporation (Nasdaq:ECOL ECOL es.comp.os.linux.* (newsgroups) ECOL Emmanuel Church of Lakewood (San Francisco, CA) ), today announced that the company's US Ecology unit has received approval from the state of Nevada to significantly expand disposal capacity at the company's Beatty, Nevada Beatty is a census-designated place and town located on the Amargosa River in Nye County in the U.S. state of Nevada. The population was 1,154 at the 2000 census. Wired telephone service numbers for the Beatty central office follow the format: (775) 553-xxxx. , hazardous waste Hazardous waste Any solid, liquid, or gaseous waste materials that, if improperly managed or disposed of, may pose substantial hazards to human health and the environment. Every industrial country in the world has had problems with managing hazardous wastes. disposal facility. The Nevada Department of Environmental Protection has approved above grade disposal for hazardous waste materials in Trench 11 at the Beatty facility. With approval of vertical stacking, the Beatty facility's total permitted current capacity exceeds two million cubic yards. "The innovation of vertical stacking enables our team at Beatty to provide the most cost-effective possible disposal solutions to our customers," Nagel said. "We have worked very closely with our regulators in Nevada to develop an efficient vertical stacking program that will keep disposal costs down for our customers and hold to the highest environmental standards. We believe vertical stacking has a great deal of merit for customers who choose and regulators who oversee other US Ecology waste disposal facilities." US Ecology's parent company, Boise-based American Ecology, provides processing, packaging, transportation, remediation and disposal services for generators of hazardous, non-hazardous and low-level radioactive waste Noun 1. low-level radioactive waste - (medicine) radioactive waste consisting of objects that have been briefly exposed to radioactivity (as in certain medical tests) at licensed facilities throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The company has been delivering environmental solutions since 1952. |
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