Weitz & Luxenberg Addresses Horrific Odor in Stark County, Ohio.
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January 14, 2007, New York, NY--Concern is escalating over the terrible odor that is keeping people from enjoying daily life in Bolivar and surrounding communities in Stark County, Ohio.
The Environmental Protection
Agency has linked the foul air to increased activity at the landfill
Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility.
“It’s outrageous that
people living and working around this landfill for years have been and are still
being exposed to noxious odors by the
operators of this landfill,” stated Robin Greenwald, Head of the firm’s
Environmental Toxic Torts Unit of Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C.
Bill
Skowronski, chief of the Environmental Protection Agency’s office in Twinsburg,
Ohio, is reported in the Beacon Journal as stating that the odor complaints in
Pike Township, where the facility is located, climbed from 46 in October to 82
in December.
The smell is said to be caused by aluminum dross/saltcake,
which Countywide once accepted in large amounts. The Times-Reporter quoted
Richard Regula, head of Stark County’s waste management board, as saying that
Countywide accepted between 200,000 and 300,000 tons of the material when Barmet
Aluminum at Uhrichsville was cleaned up.
Regula asked, “Shouldn’t the
landfill have known? Weren’t they aware of that product just sitting on the
ground was not hazardous but when mixed with water it was?” Regula is not alone
in wondering about the odor and how it will affect local residents.
Attorneys from Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., and Steven D. Bell Co. will
host a meeting to discuss these issues and to talk about how the area’s families
can protect their right to a clean environment. Thursday, January 17, 6:30 p.m.
at Tuscarawas Valley High School Gymnasium, 2637 Tuscarawas Valley Road NE,
Zoarville, OH 44656.
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