Recommendation brings mixed emotions

By ZACH LINT
The Times-Reporter

BOLIVAR - Tuscarawas County commissioners want Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility at Pike Township to be shut down, but that decision is in the hands of the Stark Board of Health, which isn’t expected to make a decision on the landfill’s 2007 operating license for several months.

A recommendation issued Wednesday by Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Director Chris Korleski stated that the permit should be denied but provided opportunities for the landfill to continue operation.

“We had to bring EPA into this process kicking and screaming and now our assumptions have been verified,” Commissioner Kerry Metzger said....Read more.