Waste Management of Canada Corp. and a local septic pumping service have been convicted and fined for failing to report an intentional landfill leachate spill at the closed Richmond Landfill site in Napanee. On Jan. 14, 2020, the waste management company directed a driver with Sutcliffe Septic Services Ltd. to dump a truckload of approximately 13,000 litres of leachate fluid into a wooded area at the site, after the driver was concerned the vehicle would become stuck in a field on its way to the landfill’s temporary leachate storage lagoon.