Club 3000 – Ohio Landfills

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Lorain landfill stench may end with legal settlement with Ohio attorney general

Message Posted: August 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

A longtime stink over the Lorain County landfill might finally be coming to an end.

And it can’t come too soon for landfill neighbors who have complained about sickening smells and unbearable odors coming from the dump — in some cases for decades.

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Lawsuit alleges landfill caused child’s leukemia

Message Posted: August 12th, 2010 · No Comments

CANTON — A former Bolivar couple says harmful chemicals released from the Countywide landfill caused their young son’s leukemia.

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Supreme Court won’t hear trash-rules case

Message Posted: June 10th, 2010 · No Comments

Local officials have lost another battle in their longtime effort to regulate the amounts of trash coming into the Stark County area, mainly from Cuyahoga and Summit counties.

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Landfills on Fire

Message Posted: June 9th, 2010 · No Comments

No one knows what caused the 10-acre underground fire that, according to the Columbus Dispatch, was still burning on May 10 in the landfill north of Cincinnati in Hamilton County.

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Underground fires at landfills worry state EPA

Message Posted: May 11th, 2010 · No Comments

The first sign of trouble came in August when wells drilled into the millions of tons of rotting garbage buried at the Rumpke Sanitary Landfill coughed up heat and carbon monoxide instead of natural gas.

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Ohio EPA letter to community leaders

Message Posted: March 12th, 2010 · No Comments

This a copy of a letter sent to community leaders concerning the distribution of the Countywide Community Benefit Fund.

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Battle begins for Countywide fund

Message Posted: March 12th, 2010 · No Comments

BOLIVAR, OH — Recommendations are being solicited for what to do with $3 million in the Countywide Community Benefit Fund, and not everyone is happy about the proposal.

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…Appeals filed on Countywide operating license

Message Posted: February 6th, 2010 · No Comments

The residents’ group Club 3000 and the Tuscarawas County commissioners have filed appeals seeking to reverse the granting of an operating license to the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility.

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Appeals court rules against Waste District

Message Posted: February 5th, 2010 · No Comments

An appeals court Wednesday posted online its opinion that explains why it ruled that the local waste district’s rules limiting the influx of waste are invalid.

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Landfill Officials Hope to Overturn Court Rulin

Message Posted: February 5th, 2010 · No Comments

The Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste District Board of Directors has decided to appeal a recent ruling from the 5th District Court of Appeals in Canton.

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