EPA investigating whether chemicals or flames are at work inside Countywide landfill

BY Ed Balint
The Canton Repository

PIKE TWP - The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is trying to figure out if an underground fire is burning at Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility.

There’s no question that heat is being generated beneath the landfill surface. It’s just a matter of what’s causing it, said Mike Settles, an EPA spokesman.

EPA officials have blamed the heat on a reaction caused by buried aluminum waste. However, Larry R. Davis, a pilot from Kent, said he suspects that thermal infrared images detect a fire at the landfill on Gracemont Avenue SW....Read more.