EPA official: Odors at Countywide less frequent
By BARB LIMBACHER
The Times-Reporter
BOLIVAR - The odors at Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility still are being detected but the frequency is going down, Kurt Princic, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency environmental manager at the Northeast District office told the board of directors of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District on Friday.
“We have taken eight separate (odor) surveys in May. The last one was on Memorial Day and we did not detect any odors. I am not saying the odors have gone away completely,” Princic said. “On two occasions we smelled no odor, three times on a scale of one to four, it was a one, and three times it was between a 1.5 and two. A four is the worst,” he said.
According to OEPA, Countywide has been working to improve the conditions at the landfill and comply with the OEPA orders....Read more.
The Times-Reporter
BOLIVAR - The odors at Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility still are being detected but the frequency is going down, Kurt Princic, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency environmental manager at the Northeast District office told the board of directors of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District on Friday.
“We have taken eight separate (odor) surveys in May. The last one was on Memorial Day and we did not detect any odors. I am not saying the odors have gone away completely,” Princic said. “On two occasions we smelled no odor, three times on a scale of one to four, it was a one, and three times it was between a 1.5 and two. A four is the worst,” he said.
According to OEPA, Countywide has been working to improve the conditions at the landfill and comply with the OEPA orders....Read more.
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