Countywide landfill’s liquid waste affects Alliance sewage plant
BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository
LEXINGTON TWP - Countywide landfill trucked nearly 20 million gallons of liquid waste last year to the Alliance wastewater treatment plant, overwhelming the plant’s ability to treat it.
As a result, Alliance discharged ammonia, organic waste and fecal bacteria into Beech Creek — and thus the Mahoning River and Berlin Reservoir — at levels that reached as much as three times state limits. And a million gallons of the liquid waste continues to be stored on the plant’s property.
Though the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency ordered Alliance to stop taking the waste in December, the agency does not believe environmental damage was done to the creek, river or reservoir....Read more.
The Canton Repository
LEXINGTON TWP - Countywide landfill trucked nearly 20 million gallons of liquid waste last year to the Alliance wastewater treatment plant, overwhelming the plant’s ability to treat it.
As a result, Alliance discharged ammonia, organic waste and fecal bacteria into Beech Creek — and thus the Mahoning River and Berlin Reservoir — at levels that reached as much as three times state limits. And a million gallons of the liquid waste continues to be stored on the plant’s property.
Though the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency ordered Alliance to stop taking the waste in December, the agency does not believe environmental damage was done to the creek, river or reservoir....Read more.
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