ABSTRACT

Fountain Avenue Landfill (FAL) and adjoining Pennsylvania Avenue Landfill (PAL) are unique landfills in that each is bounded on three sides by water and on the fourth by a highway and a residential area. Oil disposal is suspected at both fills. PAL, which opened in 1956, was closed in 1979 due to spontaneous fires. In 1983, PCB-contaminated oil was found to be seeping from PAL into the surrounding waters. An oil lens up to eight feet thick was later found to be floating on PAL’s water table. 1