Senator pushes for fixes at dump

By Bob Downing
The Akron Beacon Journal

PIKE TWP - State Sen. J. Kirk Schuring, R-Jackson Township, said Wednesday he intends to push the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to delay its recommendation on a 2007 operating permit for the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility.

The reason: concern that a large fire may be burning -- and spreading -- under part of the 258-acre landfill in southern Stark County. Such a fire could create serious health and safety hazards for workers, neighbors and potentially 600,000 people who use water from an aquifer in east-central Ohio....Read more.