Although no longer required, the Board of County Commissioners is providing you notification that a formal report was sent, via email, to [email protected].
Name of reporting party: Solid Waste Division
Installation Name: Polk County Board of County Commissioners
Installation Address: 7421 DeCastro Road
Installation Location: Winter Haven, 33880
Contact person for further information: Brian Cogswell,
Permit Number (if facility/installation holds a permit): 31164-029-SO-01
Date and time of the incident or discovery: Discovery: December 30, 2024
Location of the incident or discovery: North Central Landfill property, the covered Southeast corner of the Phase V landfill cell.
Suspected source and cause of incident or discovery: A gas condensate sump overfilled and caused approximately 1000 gallons of liquid to discharge to the ground.
Type of pollution, including substance or contaminant name(s): Landfill gas condensate (liquid).
Amount of pollution, including substance or contaminant name(s): Estimated up to 1000 gallons of landfill gas condensate.
Medium (e.g. land, water, air) affected by pollution: Stormwater in ditch on South side of Phase V landfill cell.
Potentially affected areas beyond installation property boundary: none
Potential risk to the public health, safety, or welfare: none
Identification of other parties notified of incident and time notification occurred: Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Southwest District, Solid Waste Section.
Notified on December 30, 2024 via phone call.
Any other information that may be helpful: Upon discovery, staff on-site immediately began clean-up at the affected areas. Water samples will be taken of the ditches and potentially affected pond. The site’s water quality sampling vendor has been notified to confirm that the stormwater quality was not adversely affected.