Saturday, December 23, 2006

 

Tri-county waste plan finally gets OK

By BARB LIMBACHER
The Times-Reporter

BOLIVAR – After 14 years of delays, the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District has a new solid waste plan.

At a special board of directors meeting Thursday afternoon in the district office, the plan was approved.

Because the board could not agree, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency officials stepped in and wrote the plan for the district. The district also wrote a plan and submitted it to the OEPA. Many ideas from the district plan were used in the new plan.

The district has been operating under a plan adopted in 1993....Read more.