In January 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered a cleanup at Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill. Civil Beat requested documents generated for the EPA pursuant to that order, and will be publishing them, raw and unedited, in real time.

From the Feb. 1 daily progress report:

Waste Management continues to give the same assessment of Cell E6, where workers are removing rocks to better investigate the liner. Work on the stormwater diversion channel continues without notably changes. The contractor removed 16,000 gallons of mud and water from an area just south of Cell E6, and placed the muck in tanks so it separates. Workers pumped 56,000 gallons of stormwater from the sedimentation basin to be treated for disposal.

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