Reader’s Viewpoint: Record shows that Countywide Landfill officials utterly lack credibility

The Times-Reporter

To the Editor:

It is perplexing, given the track records involved, that new Ohio EPA Director Chris Korleski would hand a decision as momentous as the renewal of Countywide landfill’s permit to operate over to a local bureaucrat, the Stark County Health Department commissioner, where this landfill’s problems have been ignored.

With each catastrophe, Countywide manager Tim Vandersall assures us all is well. The record shows Vandersall utterly lacks credibility. The wretched odors emanating from Countywide have not been, as characterized in the media, a problem for the last year. They have been around for years. But the same county health department and OEPA have fiddled while Rome – and Countywide – burned....Read more.