Club 3000 – Ohio Landfills

10/30/07 – The OEPA has hired a consultant from Illinois to provide “slope stability expertise and review data”. The consultant, Timothy Stark of Stark Consultants, has been assisting the OEPA since the spring. He is studying the effects of the fire on the landfill, including whether or not the landfill liner has been compromised. See [...]

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10/19/07 – Ohio EPA Director Chris Korleski granted Countywide more time to install a firebreak, despite originally ordering them to have it completed by October 15th. Although Countywide still has a strict time frame in which to complete construction (within 22 days after approval of the project Countywide must stop dumping into cells 7 & [...]

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10/06/07 – Tuscarawas County Commissioners expressed their concerns over the OEPA’s handling of the fire at Countywide during the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District board meeting. Commissioner Kerry Metzger asked where the urgency was in finding a solution, while Commissioner Chris Abbuhl pointed out that OEPA Director Korleski believes the landfill is still “burning [...]

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10/04/07 – Ohio EPA director Chris Korleski has ordered Countywide to install firebreaks between cells 8A and 8B. Analysis of the data Countywide presented in March has convinced the EPA that the fire is moving beyond the original 88 acres and possibly into the expansion. See article in the Times-Reporter.

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11/02/07 – Tuscarawas County Commissioners expressed their concern that the OEPA may have other motives for moving so slowly on the Countywide situation. Commissioner Kerry Metzger said he believes the OEPA will receive an extra $668,500 for moving the deadline back from October 15. He arrived at this figure because the OEPA gets $3.50 per [...]

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