Taxpayers in 14 central Connecticut towns must share the more than $3 million cost of cleaning up emissions from a local incinerator. Leaders of the town whose trash flows into the Odgen Martin incinerator in Bristol are negotiating a contractual change that will pass the cleanup cost plus another $55,000 annually on to taxpayers. The 13-year-old plant needs updated scrubbers and equipment designed to strip the mercury out of its emissions into the air. The effort is part of a national movement to reduce the amount of mercury that gets into the air and water. Connecticut plans to cut mercury releases in half by 2003.
From Daily Regulatory Reporter
