Casella withdraws Dalton wetlands application and encourages an extension of its Bethlehem contract

DALTON — John Casella, chair and chief executive officer of Casella Waste Systems, Inc., has withdrawn Granite State Landfill’s application for a wetlands permit for the company’s proposed landfill in Dalton, but he said the project remains vitally important “and we intend to see it through to completion.”

In a Dec. 10 letter to Pamela Monroe, the legal unit administrator for the N.H. Department of Environmental Services, Attorney Bryan Gould said, “in light of fieldwork and reports recently requested by federal regulators as part of GSL’s forthcoming federal applications, and NHDES’ preference to coordinate application review with that of its federal counterparts, GSL is withdrawing its pending wetlands permit application ….”