Saturday, February 24, 2007

 

Final decision on Countywide could take years

BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository

PIKE TWP - Elsie Zaleski spoke against the Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility at meetings for several years.

But the 84-year-old Pike Township woman could do nothing to stop the landfill’s expansion. After months of suffering from the landfill’s odors last year, she died in June from stroke complications, her dream of a shutdown of Countywide still unrealized.

On Wednesday, her granddaughter Alison Roberts learned that the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency had recommended that the Stark County Health Department deny Countywide a new annual operating license....Read more.