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Appeals court to rule on landfill restrictions

January 14th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Trash district will haul in less money

December 5th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Akron Beacon Journal · Landfill Observations

Landfill worries continue

October 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

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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Ohio EPA to reveal landfill plan

September 30th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Landfills power new energy trend

September 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

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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ABJ: Garbage district considers court fight

August 7th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Akron Beacon Journal · Governmental News · Join Solid Wast Management District · Landfill Press Coverage

ABJ: Ohio Senate hearing to focus on Stark landfill limits

May 15th, 2009 · No Comments

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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ABJ: Former EPA official calls for new oversight of Stark landfill

April 4th, 2009 · No Comments

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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ABJ: Landfill’s liquid rolls into Akron

March 7th, 2009 · No Comments

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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ABJ: Stark landfill can accept more trash

January 6th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Akron Beacon Journal · Landfill Press Coverage · Stark County Board of Health