Commissioners say EPA had 'no urgency' - Officials find fault with agency's reaction to landfill fire reports

By ZACH LINT
The Times-Reporter

EAST SPARTA - Tuscarawas County commissioners weren’t surprised Monday after reading an Akron Beacon Journal article detailing internal messages between the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s Columbus and Twinsburg offices in regard to happenings at Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility at East Sparta.

According to the article, OEPA officials feared using the word “fire” to describe what was happening beneath Countywide as early as last summer, despite at least one official’s claim that there was a fire....Read more.