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Monday, January 16, 2006

 

Proposed "American" landfill expansion fills agenda

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OEPA to discuss company's request at Stark hearing Feb. 2

By Bob Downing
Beacon Journal staff writer
Posted on Mon, Jan. 16, 2006

MAGNOLIA - The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will conduct a public meeting at 7 p.m. Feb. 2 on expanding American Landfill in Stark County.

The hearing will be in the auditorium of Sandy Valley High School, 5362 State Route 183.

The expansion request, filed in 1999, has been strongly opposed by a grass-roots group, Citizens Against American Landfill Expansion. The landfill is already one of the biggest in Ohio.

The upcoming meeting "is huge for our group... and it's definitely a big deal,'' said [CAALE] President Jill Van Voorhis. "The people have a real voice now and we see it as beginning.... And we feel this site has problems.'' . . . Read more