[CPEO-BIF] "U.S. EPA expands fence around former Industrial Excess Landfill, " Uniontown, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Keep out: U.S. EPA expands fence around former Industrial Excess Landfill

by Lori Steineck
Canton Repository (OH)

LAKE TWP. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has expanded the fencing around the Industrial Excess Landfill Superfund site after "potentially explosive landfill gas" was detected beyond the previous fenced-in area.

The new chain-link fence installed a couple weeks ago was built about 50 feet beyond the rusted old fence, yet still inside the property line, according to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report. The 30-acre property borders Cleveland Avenue NW on its west side.

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Originally a licensed sand-and-gravel mining operation in the late 1960s, the property eventually was used for industrial waste. But chemical waste was dumped there, too, according to the township's website. By the mid 1980s, it became a federal Superfund site with ongoing monitoring for groundwater contamination and other potential hazards.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/2021/11/28/potentially-explosive-landfill-gas-found-industrial-excess-landfill-epa-lake-township-superfund/8717381002/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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