The company that runs the nation’s oldest incinerator is trucking the ash it generates offsite while it awaits approval on a plan to keep the incinerator — and an adjacent ash landfill — which were at one point slated to close in 1996, running for another 20 years.
Portsmouth, N.H.-based WIN Waste Innovations operates a waste-to-energy plant on Route 107 in Saugus. This month, the company started shipping half of the ash generated from the incinerator roughly 45 miles away to Shrewsbury, where it has another facility, as it attempts to extend the life of the landfill.
The fill is permitted to reach a height of 50 feet. And the company risks reaching that mark in the next year if it continues its practice of dumping all ash on-site.
