Calif. EPA consultant says Countywide fuels 2 fires
BY Paul E. Kostyu
The Canton Repository
COLUMBUS - The Countywide landfill in southern Stark County is on fire, according to a consultant’s preliminary report.
Todd Thalhamer, a landfill-fire expert for the California Environmental Protection Agency, said in a report released late Friday that the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in Pike Township “is experiencing a classic metal fire and smoldering fire.”
He said neither fire “is the characteristic underground fire documented in the literature or seen in the field,” but he does not “anticipate a catastrophic event occurring.”...Read more.
The Canton Repository
COLUMBUS - The Countywide landfill in southern Stark County is on fire, according to a consultant’s preliminary report.
Todd Thalhamer, a landfill-fire expert for the California Environmental Protection Agency, said in a report released late Friday that the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in Pike Township “is experiencing a classic metal fire and smoldering fire.”
He said neither fire “is the characteristic underground fire documented in the literature or seen in the field,” but he does not “anticipate a catastrophic event occurring.”...Read more.
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