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Divestiture Transactions
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015
Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]  
Divestiture Transactions
10. DIVESTITURE TRANSACTIONS

Sale of Business

In May 2015, we divested of a business, which included the sale of certain assets associated with various waste collection routes in the Western region, for total consideration of $872, resulting in a gain of $677 in the nine months ended September 30, 2015.

Maine Energy

In the fiscal year ended April 30, 2013, we executed a purchase and sale agreement with the City of Biddeford, Maine, pursuant to which we agreed to sell the real property of Maine Energy Recovery Company, LP (“Maine Energy”) to the City of Biddeford. We agreed to sell Maine Energy for an undiscounted purchase consideration of $6,650, which is being paid to us in equal installments over twenty-one years. The transaction closed in November 2012. In December 2012, we ceased operations of the Maine Energy facility and initiated the decommissioning, demolition and site remediation process in accordance with the provisions of the agreement. We have completed the demolition process, and have nearly completed site remediation under the auspices and in accordance with work plans approved by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The time for completion of this project has been consensually extended by us and the City of Biddeford, and we expect to complete this project and transfer ownership of the real property to the City of Biddeford during the fall of 2015. In consideration of the fact that the project is substantially complete and based on incurred costs to date and estimates regarding the remaining costs to fulfill our obligation under the agreement, we reversed a reserve of $1,157 of excess costs to complete the divestiture in the nine months ended September 30, 2015. As of September 30, 2015, we have accrued $87 in other accrued liabilities for the estimated remaining costs to fulfill our obligation under the agreement.

CARES and Related Transaction

Casella-Altela Regional Environmental Services, LLC (“CARES”) is a joint venture that owned and operated a water and leachate treatment facility for the natural gas drilling industry in Pennsylvania. Our joint venture partner in CARES is Altela, Inc. (“Altela”). We held an ownership interest in CARES of 51% and, in accordance with FASB ASC 810-10-15, we consolidated the assets, liabilities and results of operations of CARES into our consolidated financial statements due to our controlling financial interest in the joint venture.

In the fiscal year ended April 30, 2014, we determined that assets of the CARES water treatment facility were no longer operational or were not operating within product performance parameters. As a result, we initiated a plan to abandon and shut down the operations of CARES. It was determined that the carrying value of the assets of CARES was no longer recoverable and, as a result, the carrying value of the asset group was assessed for impairment and impaired in the quarter ended June 30, 2014. As a result, we recorded an impairment charge of $7,455 in the nine months ended September 30, 2014 to the asset group of CARES in the Western region.

We executed a purchase and sale agreement on February 9, 2015 pursuant to which we and Altela agreed to sell certain assets of the CARES water treatment facility to an unrelated third-party. We sold these assets of CARES for purchase consideration of $3,500, resulting in a gain of $2,850 in the nine months ended September 30, 2015, 49% of which was attributable to Altela, the noncontrolling interest holder. As of September 30, 2015, we were proceeding with the dissolution of CARES in accordance with the CARES Limited Liability Company Agreement.

In connection with this transaction, we also sold certain of our equipment and real estate to the same unrelated third-party for total consideration of $1,050, resulting in a gain of $928 in the nine months ended September 30, 2015.