Truck Delivering Waste From Fracking Operation Quarantined at Hazardous Waste Landfill As Too Danger

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5. It was in the Tribune-Review. Don't know about the P-G (I couldn't find it.)

Shale truck sets off alarm in South Huntingdon

By Paul Peirce
Tribune-Review

Published: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 12:01 a.m.

A truck loaded with Marcellus shale drill cuttings that triggered a radiation alarm at a hazardous waste landfill in South Huntingdon was ordered back to a Greene County drilling site last weekend.

Township Supervisor Mel Cornell said the MAX Environmental Technologies truck was quarantined Friday after it set off a radiation alarm at MAX's landfill near Yukon, a 159-acre site that accepts residual waste and hazardous waste.

DEP spokesman John Poister confirmed the drill cutting materials from Rice Energy's Thunder II pad in Greene County had a radiation level of 96 microrem.

The landfill must reject any waste with a radiation level that reaches 10 microrem or higher.

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