Landfill is ‘No. 1 priority’ - New OEPA director pledges to address issues at Countywide

By ZACH LINT and BARB LIMBACHER
The Times-Reporter

BOLIVAR - Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Director Chris Korleski said Friday that addressing the issues surrounding Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility at East Sparta are his and the EPA’s “No. 1 priority.”

Korleski and Todd Thalhamer, the California EPA expert who was called in to determine whether Countywide has an underground fire, met briefly with the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste District Board of Directors at the board’s monthly meeting Friday attended by about 60 people....Read more.