Landfill loses ground
The Canton Repository
PIKE TWP - In May, the Stark County Board of Health renewed the operating permit for the Countywide landfill in Pike Township for the rest of the year. Before the vote, Health Commissioner William Franks said his investigation of Countywide had focused on these areas: Did the landfill pose an imminent or long-term threat to public health or the environment; what state laws has the landfill violated; can it ever be brought back into compliance?
Franks' recommendation to keep Countywide open, and the board's unanimous decision to do so, meant essentially this: They believed that Countywide's owners had done, were doing and would do enough to ensure that the landfill would operate safely. Obviously they couldn't see into the future. But developments this week call the assessment into question....Read more.
PIKE TWP - In May, the Stark County Board of Health renewed the operating permit for the Countywide landfill in Pike Township for the rest of the year. Before the vote, Health Commissioner William Franks said his investigation of Countywide had focused on these areas: Did the landfill pose an imminent or long-term threat to public health or the environment; what state laws has the landfill violated; can it ever be brought back into compliance?
Franks' recommendation to keep Countywide open, and the board's unanimous decision to do so, meant essentially this: They believed that Countywide's owners had done, were doing and would do enough to ensure that the landfill would operate safely. Obviously they couldn't see into the future. But developments this week call the assessment into question....Read more.
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