# LEMBERGER LANDFILL
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27721`
- **Case Number:** 05-1991-0127
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LEMBERGER LANDFILL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE LEMBERGER LANDFILL, INC. & LEMBERGER TRANSPORT AND RECY- CLING FACILITIES OPERATED AS DISPOSAL FACILITIES NEAR THE    VILLAGE OF WHITELAW IN FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, MANITOWOC COUNTY,  WISCONSIN.  THE 2 FORMER LANDFILLS ARE LOCATED WITHIN 1      QUARTER MILE OF EACH OTHER.  THE LEMBERGER LANDFILL (LL)     FACILITY OCCUPIES APPROX. 21 ACRES; THE LEMBERGER TRANSPORT  & RECYCLING (LTR) FACILITY IS LOCATED SOUTH OF THE LL FACILI TY AND OCCUPIES APPROX. 16 ACRES.                            -                                                            THE LEMBERGER LANDFILL, INC. FACILITY WAS USED BY THE TOWN-  SHIP OF FRANKLIN AS AN OPEN DUMP FOR APPROX. 31 YEARS.  THE  LL FACILITY WAS EXCAVATED PRIOR TO 1951 AS A GRAVEL QUARRY.  THE PEIPLE OF THE TOWNSHIP AND AREA INDUSTRIES USED THE FACI LITY AS AN OPEN DUMP BETWEEN 1940 & 1969.  IN 1969, THE      WISCONSIN DEPT. OF NATRUAL RESOURCES (WDNR) LICENSED THE     SITE AS A SANITARY LANDFILL THAT COULD RECEIVE MUNICIPAL     WASTE AND POWER PLANT FLY AND BOTTOM ASH; INDUSTRIAL WASTE   WAS THEREAFTER DIVERTED TO THE LTR FACILITY.  NO LEACHATE    COLLECTION SYSTEM WAS INSTALLED AT THE LL FACILITY.  THE LL  FACILITY WAS CLOSED BY THE WDNR IN 1976.  LEACHATE SEEPS AT  THE FACILITY WERE BROUGHT TO THE WDNR'S ATTENTION IN 1980.   EXISTING COVER AT THE LL FACILITY CONSISTS OF VARIABLE SOIL  TYPES, RANGING FROM GRADED SANDS TO CLAYS.                   -                                                            THE LTR FACILITY WAS ALSO INITIALLY 

---
*Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*