Clean Harbors is dropping its plan to accept contaminated water from the East Palestine, Ohio, railroad derailment at its Baltimore plant.
“Given the actions that Mayor [Brandon] Scott has taken in denying our request to discharge the East Palestine pre-treated wastewater into the Baltimore City system, we will not be processing any of the wastewater from the EPA-regulated cleanup of the site in Ohio at our Baltimore plant,” Clean Harbors spokesman James R. Buckley told The Brew today.
The company’s statement came in response to a letter city officials sent them yesterday saying that, while the wastewater could be brought to the company’s South Baltimore plant to be decontaminated, it could not then be discharged to the city’s Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Dundalk.
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