OhioEPA is Urging Countywide Landfill to Mitigate Spread of Fire

Date: October 6, 2007

Source: News Room

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is urging the Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility in Stark County to stop utilizing a 13-acre portion of the 6,000 ton per day, 258-acre landfill deemed to be on fire. OhioEPA wants the landfill owner Republic Services to construct a firebreak and take other agency approved measures to halt the migration of fires caused by aluminum chemical reactions. Earlier fears that the landfill's retaining wall along interstate 77 could collapse are no longer a source of major concern.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency: www.epa.state.oh.us.

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