[CPEO-BIF] Caraustar Industries, Rittman, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rittman frustrated over lack of clean-up cooperation


By BOBBY WARREN
Wooster Daily Record (OH)
January 26, 2011

RITTMAN -- The city manager would like to do something about cleaning up 
a brownfield area where Caraustar Industries once operated, returning it 
to productive use, but he has not received any cooperation from company 
officials.

City Manager Larry Boggs recently attended a brownfield conference, and 
he discovered he was a situation unfamiliar to other attendees. During 
each session he attended, Boggs would ask about what to do when a 
company will not work together to resolve the issue. Everyone else with 
whom Boggs spoke reported the companies were working with them.

In light of his discoveries, Boggs told council members Monday he 
believes he has gone as far as he can go on the matter without bringing 
in a professional with expertise in environmental issues, either an 
attorney or consultant.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.the-daily-record.com/news/article/4970171

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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