Fill receiving site

Definition

Where excavated material may legally land, which is the receiver's status and not the mileage.

Why It Matters

No law measures the haul. What law reaches is where the material may land and who keeps the record, and it changes completely across a state line. New York bars two fill types from four named counties outright and lets one of them be reused only inside the county that generated it. The receiving project must hold a building permit or municipal authorization where one is required, the fill must be used within thirty days of arrival, and the receiver may not take payment for accepting it. Generator, processor and receiver must each keep quantities and analytical data for three years. Virginia exempts rocks, brick, block, dirt, broken concrete and road pavement as clean fill so long as no open dump, hazard or nuisance results, with no permit, no location rule and no record at all. So a route's disposal arrangement is a legal instrument in one state and a handshake in another, and only one of those survives a sale.