West Virginia
Landfill Closure Assistance Program (LCAP)
West Virginia Landfill Closure Assistance Program (LCAP)
The Landfill Closure Assistance Program (LCAP) of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) aids the owners and permittees of landfills that were required to cease operations because of certain statutory closure deadlines for facilities without composite liners. The program, in WVDEP's Division of Land Restoration, designs and constructs the closure work itself. It was established by W. Va. Code § 22-16-3(a) after the Legislature passed Senate Bill 18 on October 18, 1991, and is governed by the rule 33CSR40.
In a Phase I ESA
LCAP landfills are a West Virginia form of the state landfill and solid waste disposal site records that ASTM E1527-21 lists as a standard source. The general reading of a landfill listing is on the landfills and solid waste page. Three details shape how to read one.
- These are landfills without composite liners that had to stop operating. That is the group the program was set up for. Landfills that hold a current permit are on the Solid Waste Program page.
- Closure means a cap and continuing work. WVDEP says the program carries out the closure activities needed to manage leachate, control sediment and erosion, manage natural gas, monitor groundwater, and place a final cover cap. Completing the cap does not end the work: project entries for landfills in post closure status describe leachate still being piped or trucked away for disposal, and give a count of monitoring wells.
- The state did the work, the permittee is still named. Each project entry names the permittee. WVDEP says the program is funded by a fee of $2.50 per ton on solid waste disposed of at any solid waste disposal facility in the state, paid into the Closure Cost Assistance Fund under W. Va. Code § 22-16-4(a).
What the record shows
WVDEP's LCAP Projects page had 28 project entries when it was read. They give:
- the permit application number, where one is given;
- the permittee, the county, a description of the location, and coordinates;
- the closure cap area in acres and the cap type;
- the cost of closure, on most entries;
- the number of monitoring wells;
- the closure status, most often that the cap was completed by LCAP in a stated year and the landfill is in post closure status, and on a few that the cap is under design;
- how leachate is disposed of, on most entries.
Most entries also link a location map, design drawings, and a topographic map and an aerial map of the landfill's monitoring wells. For a property near one of these landfills, the two monitoring well maps are the files to open first.
Where to look a site up
- The LCAP Projects page.
- The LCAP GIS Mapper. WVDEP says it maps the LCAP sites and can be queried for more information about location, monitoring wells and access roads.
Getting the file
The LCAP pages name no records route of their own. The Division of Land Restoration's main page links the agency's Request Information page for a Freedom of Information Act request, which can also be emailed to depfoia@wv.gov. Ask for the groundwater monitoring results by landfill name and permit application number. See the Application Enhancer page.
Sources
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection pages, read October 7, 2026, no modified date shown: