Unless your municipality is not following proper dump design, none of that oil you send in the trash is ever going into the groundwater. Dumps are designed to never let anything decay or escape into the ground, with layers of plastic barriers laid every x feet, along with reduction of microbes, and more. They’re designed to completely prevent exactly what you’re talking about.
That the landfill is allowing trash to leech into the groundwater. If you are “very confident” that they are allowing that then go ahead and report them to the EPA. They’d be in violation of a number of federal laws.
You think companies care about epa? My city been paying epa fines for decades for dumping raw sewage in the river everytime they experience overflow…which happen everytime it rained.
lol so no source then. All of those links are for single time sewer overflow violations from old style sewage overflow systems when they were designed that way. I provided links and proof to my claim, you can’t manage even that.
I expressed doubts that they would apply the necessary diligence which is reasonable with the given information. But this is of course all speculation because nobody knows which place this is about our OP might have just made it all up.
Just because a city stops providing a service has absolutely no bearing on whether or not they follow federal laws. In fact reducing those other service was maybe done so that they could continue to follow federal regulations. That’s more likely than “city cuts one service so they must be breaking federal laws”. Your logic would have made more sense if you literally went the opposite direction with it. “City cuts services so it can focus on federal requirements, since other services were costing the city money and taxpayer revenue isn’t high enough to cover supplemental services”
But this is of course all speculation because nobody knows which place this is about our OP might have just made it all up.
and we can at least speculate with logic. If a city is cutting services, it’s probably because they need to fund other (required) things. If a city is in the USA (which it sounds like from OPs comment) then they have to follow federal regulations. If the city was doing what OP said they would be breaking SO MANY federal regulations that OP should report them. What is entirely more likely is that the city is following federal regulations, none of the oil OP put into the trash made it into groundwater, and that if it did, OP should be reporting the city to the EPA (which fines hundreds of millions for violations like this).
Unless your municipality is not following proper dump design, none of that oil you send in the trash is ever going into the groundwater. Dumps are designed to never let anything decay or escape into the ground, with layers of plastic barriers laid every x feet, along with reduction of microbes, and more. They’re designed to completely prevent exactly what you’re talking about.
I’m very confident that this very environmentally conscious municipality took all necessary precautions to safely deposit their trash.
So you have no proof, you’re just assuming.
What do you think I assumed?
That the landfill is allowing trash to leech into the groundwater. If you are “very confident” that they are allowing that then go ahead and report them to the EPA. They’d be in violation of a number of federal laws.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-258
You think companies care about epa? My city been paying epa fines for decades for dumping raw sewage in the river everytime they experience overflow…which happen everytime it rained.
source or gtfo.
Im not doxxing myself for something that occurs everywhere.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cities+fined+for+epa+sewage
lol so no source then. All of those links are for single time sewer overflow violations from old style sewage overflow systems when they were designed that way. I provided links and proof to my claim, you can’t manage even that.
I expressed doubts that they would apply the necessary diligence which is reasonable with the given information. But this is of course all speculation because nobody knows which place this is about our OP might have just made it all up.
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no it’s not.
Just because a city stops providing a service has absolutely no bearing on whether or not they follow federal laws. In fact reducing those other service was maybe done so that they could continue to follow federal regulations. That’s more likely than “city cuts one service so they must be breaking federal laws”. Your logic would have made more sense if you literally went the opposite direction with it. “City cuts services so it can focus on federal requirements, since other services were costing the city money and taxpayer revenue isn’t high enough to cover supplemental services”
and we can at least speculate with logic. If a city is cutting services, it’s probably because they need to fund other (required) things. If a city is in the USA (which it sounds like from OPs comment) then they have to follow federal regulations. If the city was doing what OP said they would be breaking SO MANY federal regulations that OP should report them. What is entirely more likely is that the city is following federal regulations, none of the oil OP put into the trash made it into groundwater, and that if it did, OP should be reporting the city to the EPA (which fines hundreds of millions for violations like this).