Deadline looms for landfill to clear air

By BARB LIMBACHER
The Times-Reporter

BOLIVAR – As Friday’s deadline looms for Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility to clear up its odor problems or face consequences, landfill officials said they are working hard to resolve the problem.

In September, Director Joseph Koncelik of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency declared the landfill a public nuisance. He also set a Dec. 15 deadline for the landfill to clean up the problems.

Among those efforts were the results of ambian air monitoring at Countywide that were disclosed during the board of directors meeting of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District held Friday in the district office at Wilkshire Hills....Read more.