Tuesday, February 13, 2007

 

Experts say landfill fire would pose some risks

BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository

PIKE TWP - Since August, environmental regulators, activists, consultants, a pilot and a landfill manager have clashed over whether an underground fire is burning at the Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility.

Even within the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, documents show that the agency’s staffers in Twinsburg and Columbus have had intense debates about it. It got so contentious that an EPA staffer in Columbus, who was pushing for more investigation of a possible fire, in a memo accused other staffers of putting concern about “public and media opinion of the landfill” over a possible threat to people’s health....Read more.