{"id":100739,"date":"2026-01-30T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100739\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:56:07","slug":"solid-waste-enforcement-new-hampshire-department-of-environmental-services-and-bethlehem-landfill-enter-into-consent-decree-mitchell-williams-selig-gates-woodyard-p-l-l-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100739\/","title":{"rendered":"Solid Waste Enforcement: New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services and Bethlehem Landfill Enter into Consent Decree | Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates &#038; Woodyard, P.L.L.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitchellwilliamslaw.com\/getpdf.aspx?blog=17064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The State of New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (\u201cNHDES\u201d) and North Country Environmental Services (\u201cNorth Country\u201d) entered into a January 12th Consent Decree (\u201cCD\u201d) addressing violations of New Hampshire Solid Waste Management rules. See Docket No. 215-2026-CV-00004.<\/p>\n<p>The CD addresses a Bethlehem, New Hampshire solid waste facility (\u201cLandfill\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>A Complaint had been filed in Superior Court alleging violations of RSA 149-M, the administrative rules, and the Landfill permits.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged violations include:<\/p>\n<p>\tThe placement of waste beyond permitted limits;<br \/>\n\tFailure to maintain the leachate collection system and failure to operate system as required resulting in a leachate discharge on site;<br \/>\n\tStorage of amounts of leachate on the primary landfill liner greater than allowed;<br \/>\n\tCausing secondary landfill liner flows in excess of limits and failure to conduct required investigations and report such incidents; (v) Violations related to the existence of a hole in the primary landfill liner;<br \/>\n\tDrilling of gas monitoring wells through the \u201coverlay liner;\u201d and,<br \/>\n\tFailing to place alternative daily cover at the end of a working day.<\/p>\n<p>The CD provides that nothing in the document is, or should be construed as, an admission of liability by North Country.<\/p>\n<p>A civil penalty of $1,900,000 is assessed. Further, the CD describes certain supplemental environmental projects (\u201cSEPs\u201d) denominated:<\/p>\n<p>\tSaco River SEP.<br \/>\n\tSaco River stabilization SEP.<\/p>\n<p>A copy of the CD can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doj.nh.gov\/sites\/g\/files\/ehbemt721\/files\/inline-documents\/sonh\/assented-to-motion-to-enter-consent-decree.pdf.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Download PDF The State of New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (\u201cNHDES\u201d) and North Country Environmental Services (\u201cNorth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-100739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}