American Landfill to check monitoring wells

By Barb Limbacher
T-R Staff Correspondent

EDITOR’S NOTE: A Times-Reporter representative was in error when he indicated the newspaper endorses American Landfill’s request for expansion Thursday night. Positions on such issues are confined to The T-R editorial pages.

MAGNOLIA – Beth Schmucker said Friday the technical team at American Landfill will review comments made by Dr. Julie Weatherington-Ric[e], who said that for 30 years, millions of gallons of leachate (garbage juice) have been in the monitoring wells.

Schmucker, community relations manager for the landfill operated by Waste Management of Ohio, said the team also will look at the wells.

Weatherington-Rice, a senior scientist for Bennett and Williams Environmental Consultants Inc. at Columbus, had spoken Thursday night at an Ohio Environmental Protection Agency public hearing attended by more than 300. She said the leachate came from the old unlined portions of the landfill. . . Read more