Club 3000 president: ‘We’re not giving up hope’

By NOAH BLUNDO
The Times-Reporter

COLUMBUS - The Environmental Review Appeals Commission has issued a 99-page ruling in favor of Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility in a case challenging the landfill’s permit for expansion, but further appeals are in the works.

In a 3-0 decision last week, the Franklin County-based commission rejected claims by the appellants – the Stark-Wayne-Tuscarawas Joint Solid Waste District, the village of Bolivar and environmental group Club 3000 – that the Ohio EPA erred in granting an expansion permit in 2003 to the landfill, owned by Republic Services Inc. of Florida. The appellants said in their filings that problems with the engineering of Countywide and the danger of groundwater contamination should have led the EPA to deny the expansion permit....Read more.