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Evergreen Association collection on waste management in New Morgan (Pa.), 1988-1992 (inclusive)

Extent:

4.5 linear feet

Abstract:

The Evergreen Association is a nonprofit local environmental group in Morgantown, a village in Caernarvon Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. In the late 1980s, the Evergreen Association protested a proposal to create the new Berks County municipality of New Morgan, PA, as well as proposals that would bring landfill and other waste management projects to the area. Conestoga Landfill in New Morgan is owned and operated by the New Morgan Landfill Company, a subsidiary of the North American waste management companies Allied Waste Industries and Browning-Ferris Industries. Evergreen Association collection on waste management in New Morgan (Pa.), 1988-1992, consists primarily of binders with research related to the New Morgan Landfill Company's waste landfill permit application. Other materials in the collection include documents and copies of documents related to the selection of a vendor to handle a new landfill/waste management plan in Berks County. There are also some t-shirts and...(see more)

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