Waste District goes to battle
The Canton Repository
CANTON - Good luck to the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District in its newest fight to protect residents against landfill problems.
CANTON - Good luck to the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District in its newest fight to protect residents against landfill problems.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is considering whether to stop investigating odor complaints that don't pose a health threat. This would mean that the EPA would not investigate such problems as the horrible odors that continue to emanate from the Countywide landfill in Pike Township.
Such odors, to EPA's new way of thinking, create problems merely - merely! - with "enjoyment of the use of property." The board of the solid waste management district is objecting to the proposed change, as it should.
If they had to live near the landfill, EPA officials wouldn't dream of putting such antiseptic limits on their responsibility as guardians of Ohio's environmental quality of life.
