EPA makes headway with area landfill
The Canton Repository
PIKE TWP - The Ohio EPA may have made Stark County Health Commissioner William Franks’ job easier. Franks must soon recommend that his board either renew the operating permit for the Countywide landfill or shut the Pike Township facility down. Both options have drawbacks, but the Environmental Protection Agency’s agreement with Countywide’s owners, announced Wednesday, makes the idea of keeping the landfill open more palatable.
According to the EPA, Countywide has agreed to do more to prevent the problem that has plagued a large portion of the landfill for more than a year — a stinky combination of water and aluminum waste that has resulted in what an EPA consultant says is an underground fire....Read more.
PIKE TWP - The Ohio EPA may have made Stark County Health Commissioner William Franks’ job easier. Franks must soon recommend that his board either renew the operating permit for the Countywide landfill or shut the Pike Township facility down. Both options have drawbacks, but the Environmental Protection Agency’s agreement with Countywide’s owners, announced Wednesday, makes the idea of keeping the landfill open more palatable.
According to the EPA, Countywide has agreed to do more to prevent the problem that has plagued a large portion of the landfill for more than a year — a stinky combination of water and aluminum waste that has resulted in what an EPA consultant says is an underground fire....Read more.
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