Officials visit landfill before expansion ruling

BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository

PIKE TWP - The lawyers dressed like construction workers. The appeals commissioners wore jeans and hard hats. And the court reporter struggled to type — as she rode on a bumpy gravel road at the Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility.

Amid the steady rain, two of the three women who could decide Countywide’s future toured the landfill for less than an hour Friday. At stake: Millions of dollars in revenue, waste disposal for millions of Northeast Ohioans and the quality of life for hundreds of southern Stark County residents. ... Read more.

"Potential radioactive contamination" at Uniontown Landfill

Lake Township citizens want more testing at IEL after latest results
BY Kelli Young
The Canton Repository

LAKE TWP. - Sick of the federal government’s assessment on the Industrial Excess Landfill, a citizens group said it wanted to give community members a second opinion.

The group’s diagnosis — explained by two scientists Tuesday night — wasn’t good.

Mark Baskaran, associate professor of geology at Wayne State University, said he found evidence of varying levels of radioactive materials at the Uniontown landfill. He said low levels of plutonium were found in the groundwater that could imply that a larger amount of the radioactive material is buried nearby. ... Read more.