The Pioneer Crossing Landfill, a J. P. Mascaro & Sons affiliated facility, received
a new ten-year municipal waste landfill permit from the Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection on March 13, 2013.
Pioneer Crossing, in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, is permitted
to receive both municipal and residual waste, as well as sewage sludge from municipal
wastewater treatment plants.
In 2001, Pioneer Crossing was among the first Pennsylvania landfills to pass
DEP’s stringent regulatory “Harms-Benefits Test” which requires an applicant to
establish that the benefits of its landfill project clearly outweigh any known or potential
harms from the project. Pioneer Crossing met that burden.
Mascaro’s Pioneer Crossing Landfill provides essential disposal services to many
regional area municipalities, businesses, industries and institutions; it is centrally
located near major transportation arteries, it is managed by registered professional
engineers; it has a demonstrated history of environmental compliance; it donates 2
hundreds of thousands of dollars annually through its charitable contribution program;
and it provides significant unencumbered annual fee income to both Exeter Township
and the Borough of Birdsboro.
Speaking to the new ten-year permit, Mascaro Company President, Pat Mascaro,
said, “Pioneer Crossing is an integral part of our company’s business infrastructure and
it enables us, on a long-term basis, to provide the highest quality services for our
customers and for third party users of the landfill.”
“In today’s volatile waste industry, environmentally sound, long-term disposal is a
critical component of the modern solid waste equation, and with the issuance of Pioneer
Crossing’s new ten-year DEP permit, Mascaro is uniquely situated to provide this critical
service to its many existing and future customers for years to come,” said Mascaro.
Mascaro added that, “Within its current permitted area, Pioneer Crossing has
more than 15 years of disposal capacity remaining, and future expansion opportunities
will assure our customers of environmentally sound disposal options for approximately
50 years.”
To compliment its modern landfill, Mascaro is constructing a new multi-million
dollar single stream recycling facility on property immediately adjacent to Pioneer
Crossing. Curbside single stream recycling programs are being implemented in many
municipalities today, with the result being a significant increase in the volume of
collected recyclables.
“Our new single stream recycling facility will have all of the ‘bells and whistles’
and it will further enhance our company’s comprehensive integrated waste service
capabilities, which include collection, recycling, transferring, processing, transportation,
composting, beneficial reuse and disposal,” said Mascaro.
For information about J. P. Mascaro & Sons, its related entities, its facilities and
its services, visit the company website at www.jpmascaro.com.