EPA receives landfill plan for fire safety

By Bob Downing
The Akron Beacon Journal

PIKE TWP - Placing a synthetic liner over a portion of a major landfill in southern Stark County is the best way to extinguish the underground fires there.

That's the conclusion of a 62-page fire-suppression plan submitted Friday to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and released Tuesday on the EPA's Web site.

The plan was prepared for Republic Waste Services of Ohio for its Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility, a 258-acre landfill in Pike Township that takes in about half of Summit County's trash. The company faced a Tuesday deadline to submit its fire plan to the state under a March 28 agreement....Read more.