State orders removal of glass stockpile.The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (often abbreviated PA DEP, or just DEP) is state agency in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. See also
"The stockpiled glass has pushed through the property fence line and is now on adjoining property," Rachel S. Diamond, DEP's southcentral regional director, says. "In addition, waste from the recycling activity is in a drainage swale swale n. 1. A low tract of land, especially when moist or marshy. 2. A long, narrow, usually shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline. 3. and storm water from the property is impacting an intermittent stream." The order requires the company to remove the stockpiled glass within three years, to begin immediate removal of the waste from the drainage swale and the property line and to maintain 10-foot buffer zones in these areas. DEP DEP Deposit DEP Deputy DEP Department of Environmental Protection DEP Dependent DEP Departure DEP Depot DEP Deposition DEP deployed (US DoD) DEP Data Execution Prevention (computer security) issued a notice of violation to Cougle's in 2002 for stockpiling stock·pile n. A supply stored for future use, usually carefully accrued and maintained. tr.v. stock·piled, stock·pil·ing, stock·piles To accumulate and maintain a supply of for future use. the unprocessed glass. Follow-up inspections in April and October of 2003 documented continuing violations. "Cougle's installed new equipment in August 2003 to remove plastic and metal from the glass cullet cul·let n. Scraps of broken or waste glass gathered for remelting, especially with new material. [Probably alteration of collet, neck of glass left on the blowing iron, from French, , improving the quality of the processed glass," Diamond says. |
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