Solution to landfill odor problem due today

BY Bob Wang
The Canton Repository

PIKE TWP - Time’s about up for the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility as the state-imposed deadline for the landfill to get rid of its odor problem is the end of today.

Two days before the deadline, contractors still had not completed installing a plastic cap over 30 acres of the landfill. As they worked, the nauseating odor was strong, as the wind swirled. Several gas lines snaked their way on the surface of the cap, which looked like a massive, black covering on a mountain of waste. The workers, rushing to install the cap, had not had time to bury the gas lines....Read more.