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Commissioners: Is EPA moving too slowly on Countywide fire?

By BARB LIMBACHER
The Times-Reporter

BOLIVAR - Tuscarawas County Commissioners expressed their disappointment with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency regarding an ongoing underground landfill Fire.

The comments came Friday during and after the board of directors meeting of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District. The issue arose regarding the Oct. 1 letter to officials of Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility near Bolivar about installing a firebreak as an interim fire suppression measure. OEPA Director Chris Korleski wrote to Countywide officials that the fire is migrating throughout the original 88 acres and possibly into Cell 7, which was the first cell of expansion....Read more.



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