EPA OKs Ohio Firm's 10,000-Year Toxic Waste Burial Plan
Published Date: 7/31/2025
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Summary
The EPA has given Vickery Environmental, Inc. the green light to keep safely injecting certain hazardous wastes underground at five wells in Ohio for at least 10,000 years. This means VEI can continue their work without worrying about harmful leaks or water contamination. This final decision is official and can’t be challenged, so VEI knows exactly where they stand moving forward.
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VEI Allowed Long-Term Waste Injection
The EPA granted Vickery Environmental, Inc. an exemption to keep injecting certain hazardous wastes underground at five Class I wells in Vickery, Ohio (wells #2, #4, #5, #6, and #8). EPA found there will be no migration of hazardous constituents out of the injection zone or into an underground source of drinking water for at least 10,000 years, and the exemption allows injection only of the hazardous wastes listed by the codes in Table 1. This is a final EPA action and there is no administrative appeal.
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