Kansas environmental regulators instructed a Leavenworth County landfill already under scrutiny for fires and environmental violations to stop accepting waste until further notice. The landfill’s operator, Shawn Britz, said the facility, which accepts construction and demolition waste, voluntarily closed to new drop-offs two weeks ago to give its workers a break. But in a cease and desist letter, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment detailed a series of attempts to bring the facility, owned by Flat Land Excavating, into compliance before shutting it down for permit violations. “Such violations pose a threat to public health and the environment,” the letter says, because the facility has accepted too much waste. It says the structure of the landfill could be compromised.
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