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Stark landfill gets more time to install berm to reduce risk of underground fires spreading
By Bob Downing Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Thursday, Oct 18, 2007
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has revised its deadline on construction of a firebreak at a troubled landfill in southern Stark County.
The agency is giving Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility more time to install a berm between two landfill cells in an effort to reduce the risk of underground fires spreading into areas where trash is being dumped.
On Oct. 1, the EPA ordered Republic Services to stop dumping trash in Cell 8A by Oct. 15, but that deadline has been eased, the agency said.
The EPA wants the company to quickly install a berm and other features within 14 days of the engineering plans receiving EPA approval and to follow a 22-day schedule to start using newly opened Cell 8B for trash placement.
The EPA is worried that the underground fires could spread into Cell 8A because it is connected underground to areas of the landfill with problems. Cell 8B is not connected to the prob lem areas.
The two sides are troubled by the levels of liquids in the 88 acres where the problems are centered, according to an EPA letter following an Oct. 8 meeting between Republic Services and the EPA.
The EPA said it wants the company to increase efforts to remove high volumes of leachate liquid runoff from the landfill. EPA officials have said for months that Countywide is producing more leachate than is normal in a properly functioning landfill.
If the company adopts an aggressive schedule to remove the leachate and haul it away for disposal, it would improve the efficiency of the landfill's gas extraction wells and boost the physical stability of the landfill and the synthetic liner that keeps liquids from escaping, the EPA said.
''Please continue acting promptly and treat the dewatering effort with the priority it deserves,'' wrote EPA enforcement coordinator Ed Gortner in an Oct. 12 letter to the company.
High temperatures, foul odors and excessive settling have occurred on the 258-acre landfill next to Interstate 77.
Republic Services says the problems were triggered by the leachate coming into contact with buried aluminum wastes deep in the landfill.
The EPA is trying to determine how to extinguish the underground fires. The company wants to install synthetic caps to keep oxygen and water out of the landfill and to smother the fires.
Bob Downing can be reached at 330-996-3745 or bdowning@thebeaconjournal.com.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has revised its deadline on construction of a firebreak at a troubled landfill in southern Stark County.
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