Tuesday, March 06, 2007

 

Ohio EPA lays the groundwork for landfill negotiations

BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository

PIKE TWP - State officials held their first meeting Wednesday with people from Countywide landfill's owner to negotiate what the company has to do to keep the government from shutting down the landfill.

Ohio Environmental Protection Agency officials and representatives of Republic Services, owner of the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility, met for much of the day at the agency's Columbus headquarters, said agency spokesman Mike Settles. He declined to disclose what each side said....Read more.