The Aragonite facility is a commercial waste incineration, transfer, and storage facility located in a remote area of Tooele County, Utah.
The Aragonite facility is located 2.5 miles south of Interstate 80 at the Aragonite exit (Exit #56). The nearest residential area is Grantsville, about 34 miles from Aragonite. The nearest single dwelling is at Delle, approximately 16 miles to the east of Aragonite. The site is arid to semi-arid with an annual precipitation of 6 to 12 inches.
The Aragonite facility was formerly known as Safety-Kleen (Aragonite) Inc., Laidlaw Environmental Services (Aragonite), Inc., and Aptus, Inc. The incinerator has a thermal input limit of approximately 156 million BTUs/hr and consists of a slagging rotary kiln with a vertical afterburner chamber. The gas cleaning train consists of a spray dryer, baghouse, saturator, and wet scrubber. Permitted waste storage areas include a bulk liquid tank farm (sixteen ~30,000gallon tanks); container storage areas (~17,500 55-gallon drum capacity); direct burn tanker and bulk container storage areas (~62,000 gallons total capacity); sludge storage tanks (~38,000 gallon total capacity); bulk solids storage tanks (~1100 yd3 total capacity); and three ATF storage magazines for waste 1.3G explosives (90,000 pounds total capacity).
The wastes that are managed at the facility include hazardous wastes, PCBs, industrial wastes, infectious wastes and other non-hazardous wastes. The facility is designed to handle high and low BTU bulk liquid wastes, bulk sludges, bulk solids, compressed gas tankers and cylinders, certain waste explosives, and containerized wastes.
The current permitted capacity of the incinerator is approximately 13 tons per hour. It typically processes about 60,000 tons per year. Operations occur 24 hours a day. There are approximately 240 employees at the site.
The original hazardous waste permit was issued by the State of Utah in March 1990. The original construction of the facility was completed in July 1991. The original trial burn testing began in March 1992 and ended in May 1992. Multiple trial burns and performance tests have been conducted since. The current permit was reissued on June 20, 2023. The online copy of the permit, linked below, is not an official copy of the permit. Please contact the Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control staff listed below for updated permit information
The Compliance History for Clean Harbors Aragonite lists the violations identified during inspections and the resolution reached.
Clean Harbors Aragonite, LLC phone number is (435) 884-8100.
- Permit Page
- List of Permit Revisions
- Module 1—Standard Conditions
- Module 2—General Facility Conditions
- Module 3—Storage and Treatment in Containers
- Module 4—Storage and Treatment in Tank Systems
- Module 5—Incineration
- Attachment 1— Waste Analysis Plan
- Attachment 2—Security Procedures
- Attachment 3—Inspections
- Attachment 4—Personnel Training
- Attachment 5—Preparedness and Prevention
- Attachment 6—Contingency Plan
- Attachment 7—Closure
- Attachment 8—Waste Storage, Processing, and Tracking
- Attachment 9—Tank Tables
- Attachment 10—List of Design Drawings
- Attachment 11—Equipment Specifications (equipment listing)
- Attachment 12—Waste Feed Cutoff Systems Testing Procedure
- Attachment 13—Instrument Calibration
- Attachment 14—Fume Management
- Attachment 15—QACPP for CO and O2 Continuous Emission Monitors
- Attachment 16—Data Monitoring and Recording System
- Attachment 17—Waste Management Plan for Polychlorinated Biphenyls
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For more information about Clean Harbors Aragonite Permit, please contact either Gabrielle Marinick ([email protected]) (385) 499-0172.