WET, Friends of the Nanticoke River, and Residents File Complaint over Porter Mill Road DAF Storage

The Wicomico Environmental Trust, Friends of the Nanticoke River, and more than two dozen Wicomico County residents have filed a complaint in Wicomico County Circuit Court seeking relief from the harms and risks caused by the open-top dissolved air flotation (DAF) waste storage tank on Porter Mill Road. 

For five years, nearby residents have endured the tank’s pervasive odor, disruptive traffic, and other impacts that threaten both quality of life and water quality.  The plaintiffs assert that the tank was inaccurately represented as an agricultural operation, despite its industrial-scale waste storage activities. 

The complaint seeks damages from defendants Edmond H. Burns IV and Denali Water Systems for private and public nuisance claims and requests disgorgement to Wicomico County of all profits they received as a result of their inaccurate representations.  Wicomico County is added as a party to the request for declaratory and injunctive relief to halt use of the tank and require its removal.