Club 3000 members ask to be heard at health board

By BARB LIMBACHER
The Times-Reporter

CANTON – Area residents with concerns about Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility and odor problems can attend the Stark County Board of Health meeting Wednesday at 8 a.m. at 3951 Convenience Cl. NW, Canton.

Members of Club 3000, a grassroots environmental group, have asked to be placed on the agenda to request that the health board deny Countywide’s 2007 license application.

Some of the issues that club members want to discuss are overloaded waste trucks, muddy roads and dust problems in addition to the odor that has plagued residents the last two years. Recently the landfill was declared a public nuisance by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

Dan Harris, chief of the Division of Solid Infectious Waste Management of the OEPA, urged the Canton Board of Health to propose denial of the facility’s 2007 license if Countywide has not entered into a satisfactory consent agreement with the Ohio EPA before Dec. 31. Harris recommended the action in a letter dated Oct. 6 to Bill Franks, Stark County Health commissioner.

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