Saturday, July 07, 2007

 

Appeals Commission OKs landfill expansion; foes not giving up

BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository

BOLIVAR - The fight over the Countywide landfill’s expansion lasted nearly as long as the Iraq war.
For four years, landfill opponents spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. They attended weeks of hearings in Columbus. They hired environmental experts. And they filed thousands of pages in legal documents. But in the end, they couldn’t beat the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in Pike Township.

On Friday, board members of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District met in a closed-door session to discuss their legal options....Read more.