Cleanup plans due in Copley next year

By Bob Downing
The Akron Beacon Journal

COPLEY TWP - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is still investigating two contaminated sites in Copley Township, and plans for final remedies should be drafted next year.

That report on the former Bessie Williams Landfill at 2020 Knox Boulevard and on contaminated water at Copley Square at Copley and Jacoby roads was made at Wednesday's meeting of the Copley Township trustees.

The main issue at the old dump is contaminated lead in the soil on the 18.6 acres, said EPA staffer Sharon Jaffess.

The site was an unlicensed landfill from the 1950s to the 1980s....Read more.