Stark board takes no action on landfill

By Bob Downing
The Akron-Beacon Journal

PLAIN TWP - Delegations from Tuscarawas County and from the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility came to Thursday's meeting of the Stark County Health Department board, but their voices weren't heard.

The board took no action and accepted no public comment on a recommendation from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency concerning Countywide's landfill in southern Stark County.

The Tuscarawas delegation included the three county commissioners and members of Club 3000, a grass-roots group that has been fighting the 258-acre landfill in Pike Township. Officials of landfill owner Republic Waste Services of Ohio and its attorney were on hand to represent Countywide....Read more.