EPA official: Don't worry about water

By ZACH LINT
The Times-Reporter

EAST SPARTA – Residents concerned about drinking water coming from the underground aquifers surrounding Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility at East Sparta shouldn’t worry, according to Jeff Rizzo, an Ohio Environmental Protection Agency hydrogeologist.

The Akron Beacon Journal published a story last Wednesday accompanied by a photo diagram of a sample landfill cell – not Countywide – provided by the California Integrated Waste Management Board. In it, ground water appeared to run directly beneath the landfill cell....Read more.