Is it a fire? EPA needs to know

The Canton Repository

PIKE TWP - Could fire and a chemical reaction be mistaken for each other in an infrared image? We have no idea. Neither, apparently, does the Ohio EPA. But the agency wants to know — welcome news for residents who can’t escape the odor coming from the Countywide landfill in Pike Township.

The nasty smell that residents have put up with for months and months has been blamed on a chemical reaction involving decomposition of buried aluminum waste. But a pilot from Kent who made infrared pictures of the site in August and December thinks the problem might be the result of an underground fire, and a fire that is growing....Read more.