- Cover Technologies, Inc.
- Commercial
- Hopedale, Massachusetts
Project Overview
Charter developed and carried out the closure strategy for a formerly abandoned, unlined, privately owned landfill in Hopedale, Massachusetts. The approximately nine-acre site was under a MassDEP Administrative Consent Order requiring closure, but its owner lacked the funds to build the required final cap.
Charter worked with the owner and regulators to complete the Corrective Action Design and win approval to import permitted grading and shaping materials. Revenue from that material paid for final closure construction, post-closure maintenance and long-term monitoring, turning a stalled liability into a self-funded solution.
Charter’s Role
- Acceptance and placement of permitted soil and shaping material from more than 200 regional construction projects
- Construction of a mechanically stabilized earth perimeter wall to increase usable fill volume
- On-site rock crushing to produce backfill and drainage material
- Stormwater controls, including sediment basins, vegetated swales and riprap downchutes
- A passive landfill-gas system with gas vents and perimeter mitigation trenches
- A multi-layer final cap with HDPE geomembrane, drainage and gas-venting geocomposites and a vegetative-support layer
Outcomes & Benefits
The landfill was closed and capped in 2023 in compliance with the state order, without relying on public funding, while giving regional construction projects a permitted outlet for their soils.
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