NEW! Invitation to bid for yard waste grinding contract
Open Burning Ban (in effect statewide, May 1-September 30) To make an open burning complaint, please call 1-800-662-8802 (24 hours a day).
Annual Delaware TRI Data, Reports and Info – Increases in release data largely reflect more accurate reporting.
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Yard waste can no longer be disposed of or mixed with household trash in northern New Castle County. But there are good environmental options for where it can go, such as DNREC's three yard waste drop-off sites in New Castle County.
The newest of the sites, The Brandywine Hundred site joins the Polly Drummond Hill Road and Mid-County sites in welcoming residents' clippings, trimmings, tree limbs and fallen foliage. |
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Groundwater remedy construction was completed earlier this year at the former Metachem/Standard Chlorine site near Delaware City. Excavation reached 90 feet below ground to enable a slurry wall to be built as an interim groundwater remedy. Read more about construction of the containment wall and an update about the Metachem cleanup.
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| Delaware produces over 750,000 scrap tires a year. Too many of them are dumped in piles, presenting a number of environmental, health and safety hazards. The Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Branch now has a program for the cleanup of tire piles – click here to learn more about it. |
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DNREC's environmental cleanup requirements continue at Claymont Steel.
NRG Energy, Inc., DNREC sign consent decree for reducing air pollutants at Indian River power plant by 2009.
INVISTA S.à.r.l. Application for Operation of INVISTA Seaford Industrial Waste Landfill
Technical assistance information about the Former Hercules Golf Course (aka Delaware National)
Report on DuPont Hay Road “Iron Rich” Site
