Stark to ask landfill to pay for repair of 4 roads

By Bob Downing
The Akron Beacon Journal

BOLIVAR - The Stark County engineer will ask a landfill operator for money to help repair county roads used by garbage trucks en route to the company site.

Stark County Engineer Michael Rehfus said he will make that request of the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility after the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Solid Waste Management District voted twice Friday against allocating money for the repaving.

Rehfus said he was prepared to suggest that the load limits be reduced on the four county roads used by heavily loaded garbage trucks bound for the landfill in Pike Township, a move that would reduce damage to the roads but could have a major impact on garbage haulers and on the 258-acre landfill....Read more.