Club 3000 – Ohio Landfills

A state appeals court must decide whether the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Solid Waste Management District can restrict garbage shipments from other Ohio counties.

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BOLIVAR: The addition of a trash-hauling company in Northeast Ohio is having a big financial effect on the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District.

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ZOAR: The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency remains concerned about the synthetic liner under a Stark County landfill with odors and underground fires, the agency’s director said at a public meeting on Thursday night.
In a talk before a crowd of about 110 people at Tuscarawas Valley High School, Chris Korleski said high temperatures at Countywide Recycling [...]

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The head of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will outline the future management of a troubled Stark County landfill at a Thursday public meeting.
EPA Director Chris Korleski will discuss the new operations-monitoring-and-maintenance plan for the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in Pike Township.

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SANDY TWP.: Slowly brewing below the surface of once rolling land in southeastern Stark County is one of Ohio’s newest sources of energy.
About 400 acres of the sprawling American Landfill are perforated with 133 wells that are extracting volatile methane gas that is created by the decomposition of buried household garbage.

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An unhappy Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Solid Waste Management District intends to fight back.
The district on Friday approved sending letters to state legislators to voice disapproval with a last-minute amendment to the state budget bill.

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Akron, Summit leaders fight waste district’s rules that would keep garbage out if standard not met a controversial rule that could keep trash from Summit and Cuyahoga counties out of Stark County landfills faces new challenges.

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BOLIVAR: Gov. Ted Strickland should replace Ohio Environmental Protection Agency staffers overseeing a troubled Stark County landfill because of a ”culture of corruption,” a former EPA official said Tuesday.

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Sewage plant processes thousands of gallons a day of corrosive material from troubled Stark dump
PIKE TWP.: As many as 15 5,000-gallon tankers are shipped each day from south of Canton to the Akron sewage treatment plant to unload a chemically tainted liquid.

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Health board votes 4-3 to issue operating permit
PLAIN TWP.: By a narrow vote, the Stark County Board of Health today approved issuing a 2009 operating permit for a landfill that has had fires and odor problems.

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