Mt. Eaton Landfill's noxious gas

EPA to landfill: Reduce gas from hazardous levels

By Robert Wang
Repository Staff Writer

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the Mount Eaton Sanitary Landfill to take additional steps to reduce the amount of noxious hydrogen sulfide gas to safe levels.

EPA spokesman Mike Settles said his agency has directed the landfill’s owner, Norton Environmental, to expand its gas-extraction system to all areas of the landfill where the gas is present, install hydrogen sulfide detectors and set up a system to track the movement and speed of winds that carry the gas. . . Read more