Thursday, March 29, 2007

 

Stark landfill to pay $1 million plus and close 88 acres

BY M.L. Schultze
The Canton Repository

PIKE TWP - Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility has agreed to pay more than $1 million in fines and relief and to close the original part of its Pike Township landfill.

The Ohio EPA announced the agreement this morning.

The landfill faced revocation of its license after an EPA consultant, Todd Thalhamer, and the EPA’s new director, Chris Korleski, concluded that more than a year of stench and gas emanating from the landfill was caused by two large underground fires....Read more.