Virginia AG files suit against landfill operator

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) have filed a lawsuit against CFS Group Disposal & Recycling Services LLC (CFS) or what it calls “significant and repeated waste management violations” at its Tri City Landfill in Petersburg, Virginia.

Herring and the DEQ allege that CFS exceeded the permitted waste pile height, failed to properly maintain its stormwater control system, failed to adequately cover exposed waste, failed to maintain the required amount of extra waste cover and failed to correct the violations in a timely manner even after being repeatedly notified.

The suit was filed after the matter was referred to the office of attorney general by the director of the DEQ, whose staff provided the information upon which the suit is based. That information includes inspections, two consent orders, one warning letter, one notice of violation and notices to CFS of the ongoing violations on “multiple occasions,” according to a news release issued by Herring’s office.

The formerly Virginia-based CFS Group and its assets were acquired by Missouri-based Meridian Waste in February 2017.