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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Air pollution control retrofit at County’s Resource Recovery Facility reduces nitrogen oxide emissions up to 500 tons a year

From today's news release:

"In support of County Executive Isiah Leggett’s public commitment to use state-of-the-art technologies to improve air pollution control at the County’s Resource Recovery Facility (RRF) in Dickerson, the Division of Solid Waste Services (DSWS) of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has announced completion of a retrofitting project that has reduced nitrogen oxide (NOx) to about half of the amount designated by regulatory standards.

Previously, the RRF recorded concentrations of about 170 parts per million (ppm), compared to the federal and state daily average limit of 180 ppm. With the newly installed technology, DSWS expects daily average concentrations of NOx to be not more than 110 ppm and 90 ppm on an annual basis."

• Read entire news release
• Visit our Resource Recovery Facility online

-- posted by Susanne

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