EPA: Don't worry about Stark

By NOAH BLUNDO
The Times-Reporter

BOLIVAR - The head of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency told Tuscarawas County Commissioner Chris Abbuhl in a letter that while the scale of problems at Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility might have created confusion about enforcement policies, he believes the Stark County Health Department follows proper citation procedures.

The letter from OEPA Director Chris Korleski, dated Friday, came in response to one Abbuhl sent March 7 asking Korleski to examine inspection processes between the agency’s Southeast and Northeast districts. In his letter, Abbuhl highlighted that both Countywide at East Sparta and American Landfill at Waynesburg took in more than three times the amount of trash that Kimble Landfill at Dover did in 2005 and 2006, yet Countywide and American received only a handful of violations while Kimble was cited almost weekly....Read more.