Delaware Valley Resource Recovery Facility

90 MW

Address

10 Highland Avenue
Chester, PA
19013
United States of America

Latitude: 39.825784

Longitude: -75.389644

http://www.covantaenergy.com/facilities/facility-by-location/delaware-valley.aspx

Notes

Their six boilers were rated at 448 tons/day each, totalling 2,688, but around 1997, they started taking much more, and now the facility is rated at 3,510 tons/day, making it the largest in the U.S. and around the 5th largest in the world. Ash goes to Delaware County's Rolling Hills Landfill in Berks County, PA. For a couple of years, it used to go to the neighboring Clean Metals plant for metals to be removed from the ash for recycling before ash was landfilled, but that mess of a plant was closed in 2005.

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Environmental Justice Analysis

Distance (miles)	0	2.5	5	10	25
American Indian		0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%
Asian		0.6%	2.4%	4.6%	6.4%
Black	51.6%	60.3%	38.3%	17.5%	26.6%
Hispanic	32.8%	9.4%	7.6%	5.3%	10.5%
White	17.2%	26.1%	48.1%	68.8%	53.1%
	53.1%
Population	64	24k	91k	343k	2,716k
Income	$26k			$76k	$60k

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GROUPS

Group	St.	Interest
Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living		Interested
Energy Justice Network		Interested
DelCo Alliance for Environmental Justice		Interested
Chester Environmental Justice		Interested

CORPORATION

Name	Relation	Ownership
Covanta Delaware Valley LP	Owner	100%
American Ref-Fuel Co of DE Valley	Former Owner	0%

PEOPLE

Person		Interest
Mike Ewall		Active

LINK

Link
Philadelphia City Council Bill 120393 & Contract 5/10/2012 proposing 4-7 year contract with Covanta
Covanta contract with New York City that sends 400,000 tons/year of waste to be burned here for 20-30 years 7/3/2013
Hearing to be scheduled on Covanta bonding deal 1/18/2014 Niagara Falls news on other receiving end of Covanta NYC contract; states that Delaware County approved tax-exempt bonds for the rail line
2002 Delaware County Solid Waste Management Plan May 2002

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Power	Type	Status	Fuel	Secondary Fuel(s)
15 MW	Burner: Unknown Type	Operating	Municipal Solid Waste 585 Tons Per Day	Natural Gas
15 MW	Burner: Unknown Type	Operating	Municipal Solid Waste 585 Tons Per Day	Natural Gas
15 MW	Burner: Unknown Type	Operating	Municipal Solid Waste 585 Tons Per Day	Natural Gas
15 MW	Burner: Unknown Type	Operating	Municipal Solid Waste 585 Tons Per Day	Natural Gas
15 MW	Burner: Unknown Type	Operating	Municipal Solid Waste 585 Tons Per Day	Natural Gas
15 MW	Burner: Unknown Type	Operating	Municipal Solid Waste 585 Tons Per Day	Natural Gas

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