EPA chief inspects 'unique circumstance' at landfill

BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository

BOLIVAR - Accompanied to the area by the new director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, a landfill fire expert from California said Friday he's never seen a situation like that of the Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility.

"You have a very unique circumstance here," said Todd Thalhamer, a waste management engineer for the California Environmental Protection Agency. If there is a fire burning inside the Pike Township landfill, "this is about as complicated as a landfill fire gets."...Read more.