A bipartisan group of Baltimore County Council members supports a proposed resolution urging the state’s environmental department to deny revisions to the Days Cove Rubble Landfill’s discharge permit.

Introduced Oct. 6 by Councilman David Marks, an Upper Falls Republican, the resolution calls on the Maryland Department of the Environment to deny the wastewater discharge permit requested by Days Cove Reclamation Company, which operates the 83-acre rubble landfill in White Marsh, and to initiate a plan to close the site.

The council’s two other Republican members, Todd Crandell and Wade Kach, as well as council members Mike Ertel and Izzy Patoka, both Democrats, are cosponsors.

This comes as the rubble landfill, situated on a peninsula formed by Days Cove and the Bird and Gunpowder rivers

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