SB 5606 - DIGEST

(SEE ALSO PROPOSED 1ST SUB)

     Requires each landfill facility whose area at its design capacity will exceed one hundred acres and whose horizontal height at design capacity will average one hundred feet or more above existing site elevations shall comply with the standards of this act.

     Provides that:  (1) No landfill may be located closer than two thousand feet to any drinking water supply well, in use and existing at the time of the purchase of the property;

     (2) no landfill may be located so that the active area is any closer than one thousand feet to the property line of adjacent land zoned as residential, existing at the time of the purchase of the property containing the active area;

     (3) no landfill may be located so that the active area is located within one thousand feet measured horizontally, of a stream, lake, pond, river, or saltwater body;

     (4) no landfill may be located so that the active area is closer than five miles to any local, state, or national park;

     (5) no landfill may be located over a sole source aquifer designated under the federal safe drinking water act, if such designation was effective before January 1, 1997; and

     (6) each landfill shall be constructed with an impermeable berm around the entire perimeter of the active area of the landfill of such height, thickness, and design as will be sufficient to contain all material disposed in the event of a complete failure of the structural integrity of the landfill.