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Town reviewers press IWS on leachate, aquifer and truck counts for transfer-station upgrades
Summary
Town officials reviewed a proposed 9,000-square-foot covered transfer building and related upgrades at the IWS transfer station, focusing on leachate containment, an underlying aquifer, stormwater controls and discrepancies in projected truck traffic.
Town of Goshen officials on Wednesday reviewed a proposed expansion and operating-permit update for IWS’s transfer station at the Hartley Road site, raising questions about leachate handling, groundwater risk to a mapped aquifer, stormwater controls and inconsistent truck-count figures.
The board’s review centered on a 9,000-square-foot covered tipping and transfer building, a new leachate collection system and a double-walled leachate tank, plus related traffic and operational limits. Town reviewers asked IWS to clarify how fluids from tipping operations will be captured and routed, and pressed for clearer documentation of the number and type of trucks the facility will receive and dispatch.
Why it matters: The site sits within a locally mapped aquifer area and near municipal wellfields, making containment of liquids and proper leachate control a central public-health and environmental concern. Board members also said community quality-of-life problems — smells, leachate dripping onto Hartley Road and the safety effects of heavy truck traffic — must be evaluated before the town acts on the permit request.
Key details and questions - Facility layout: The applicant…
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