Environmentalists welcome new rules for construction landfills

Ohio reins in specialty dumps
New rules increase ground-water monitoring, runoff tests, ban pulverized waste at construction, demolition landfills
By Bob Downing
Akron Beacon-Journal

AKRON - A smouldering underground fire. Liquid waste dumped in a stream. A sickening rotten-egg odor.

Problems like these have plagued Ohio's construction and demolition landfills.

Now, new rules are about to go into effect that would tighten the state's control over these specialty dumps that take in such debris as concrete, bricks, lumber, plaster board, stone, glass, roofing materials, wiring, plumbing fixtures and insulation. ... Read more.