Saturday, January 27, 2007

 

Expert to examine landfill - OEPA call in firefighter to investigate at Countywide

By ZACH LINT
The Times-Reporter

EAST SPARTA – As early as next week, anxious residents of northern Tuscarawas and southern Stark counties who live near the landfill should know whether an underground fire is ultimately causing the air in their neighborhoods to be infected with offensive odors.

Environmental fire expert Todd Thalhamer has been called in by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to investigate the heat radiating from underneath a waste cell at Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility at East Sparta....Read more.