Interesting and informative article on C&D landfill regulations (or lack-thereof).

With little direction from the federal government, each state regulates construction and demolition debris fills a little differently.

Alaska, unlike some in the Lower 48, requires no liners or test wells of fill operators. Central Recycling Services, the company proposing debris fills for Chugiak and Palmer, doesn’t plan to line them but does plan to do wells.

Construction and demolition debris fills here fall under the category of “inert monofill” — what regulators consider a uniform kind of waste with “a low potential” to pollute air or water.

via Often it’s up to landfill owners to report problems | State News | ADN.com.