Wednesday, February 21, 2007

 

Solutions offered if landfill burns

BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository

PIKE TWP - If two underground fires are burning in Countywide landfill, what should the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency do to make sure the blazes don’t threaten the environment?

California landfill-fire expert Todd Thalhamer, who was brought here by the EPA to evaluate the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility, told the agency Friday he believes an aluminum waste reaction sometime before December 2005 sparked two fires in the landfill. He recommended the EPA encourage Countywide to:...Read more.