Dioxin Emissions from Pennsylvania Incinerators

Source: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Bureau of Air Quality's
Section 111(d)/129 State Plan for Large Municipal Waste Combustors (MWCs)

Harrisburg's incinerator is pumping out 15-140 times more dioxin than the total of the other 3 PA incinerators for which comparable data is available

Incinerator Dioxin emissions (ng/dscm) American Ref-Fuel 51 Wheelabrator Falls 3 York County 5 Harrisburg (1997 tests) 909 Harrisburg (1994, 1996 tests) 8231

Facility Name	Unit	Emission Ratea	Date Measured
Wheelabrator Falls Inc. (09-0013)	1	0.977 ng/dscm	Aug 13, 1997
	2	1.59 ng/dscm	Aug 13, 1997
The Harrisburg Materials, Energy, Recycling Resource and and Recovery Facility (22-2007)	1	1157 ng/dscm	June 1-2, 1994
	2	7074 ng/dscm	July 24-25, 1996
	1	321 ng/dscm**	November 12-13, 1997
	2	588 ng/dscm**	September 15-16, 1997
American Ref-Fuel (Delaware County Resource Recovery Facility, formerly operated by Westinghouse) (23-0004)	1	1.19 ng/dscm	May 15-16, 1997
	2	2.19 ng/dscm	May 21, 1997
	3	0.744 ng/dscm	May 16, 19, 1997
	4	2.72 ng/dscm	July 24, 30, 1997
	5	28.60 ng/dscm	May 19, 21, 1997
	6	16.0 ng/dscm	May 15-16,1997
Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority (36-2013)	1	0.60 ng/Nm3*	May 6-7, 1997
	2	.085 ng/Nm3*	May 8, 1997
	3	.053 ng/Nm3*	May 9-12, 1997
Montenay Montgomery Ltd. (46-0010)	1	2.25 ng/Nm3	May 6-8, 1997
	2	1.91 ng/Nm3	May 6-7, 1997
York County Solid Waste & Recovery Authority (67-2006)	1	2.33 ng/dscm	Mar 25, 1997
	2	1.114 ng/dscm	Mar 25, 1997
	3	1.909 ng/dscm	Mar 28, 1997