Email“Statement from the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection on Reported Emission Exceedance at County's Resource Recovery Facility”
ReceivedFeb 20, 2026
Reworld Montgomery, Inc. reported that compliance testing on Dec. 22 and 25, 2025 for Unit 2 of the County's Resource Recovery Facility showed dioxin and furan emissions of 97.79 ng/dscm — more than three times the MDE permitted limit of 30 ng/dscm. Unit 2 had been taken offline Jan. 4, 2026 for a scheduled refurbishment; Reworld performed additional repairs and projects a restart on Feb. 25, 2026, with new compliance testing in early March. The County's DEP has engaged an expert health risk assessor to evaluate potential public health impacts and will release results when available.
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2025-12-22
event — Unit 2 compliance testing conducted
2025-12-25
event — Unit 2 compliance testing conducted
2026-01-04
event — Unit 2 taken offline for major refurbishment outage
2026-01-13
event — Preliminary test results received, showing exceedance
2026-02-12
event — Exceedance results confirmed by lab
2026-02-25
event — Projected Unit 2 restart date
2026-03-01
event — Unit 2 compliance re-testing expected in early March
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