Lordstown to appeal Lafarge landfill expansion

Council appealing Lafarge's license

By Jill Kovacs
Tribune Chronicle

LORDSTOWN - Village Council is nervous that the Lafarge North America plant on Newton Falls Bailey Road could expand. Council is preparing an appeal to the Environmental Review Appeals Commission under the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to challenge Lafarge's annual operating license.

The Trumbull County Board of Health approved the license with expansion rights in December.

"We submitted our 2006 license renewal with possible expansion should we choose to do so in the future,'' said Tim Page, business manger at Lafarge. "We have permitted 100 additional acres, but we don't know if we will expand.''

The license permits Lafarge to use additional land on its 375-acre site as a landfill. . . . Read more