LORDSTOWN Council to hear about noise

The company is not breaking any laws, a spokesman said.
LORDSTOWN -- The leader of a citizens group plans to take her complaint of excessive noise from a Lafarge Corp. landfill operation to village council tonight.
"It's like torture. You can't sleep in the morning," Lauraine Breda of the Citizens Against Lafarge Landfill said today.
The group has opposed the proposed Lafarge landfill along Newton Falls-Bailey Road.
However, the noise complaint about the slag operation surfaced about five months ago when she alleged it was moved from another portion of the 426 acres Lafarge owns to across the street from her home. Breda said a grass field with trees was destroyed by the slag operation.
Tim Page, Lafarge operations manager, said Breda is wrong. The slag operation in the center of the company property located in both Newton Township and Lordstown has not been moved since it opened in 1926, he said.
What's going on
What is being located near Breda's home is dirt and slag removed to create a depression that will be the base of the landfill, he said. The material will be used to cover construction material as it's dumped into the landfill.
Page said Lafarge is not breaking any laws and will continue what it has been doing. The company has a permit from the Trumbull County Department of Health to operate the landfill.
The land, Page added, is zoned industrial and the operation can go on seven days a week, 24 hours per day. "I'm not stopping until we get some satisfaction," Breda said, noting the noise is a bother to her and her neighbors 12 hours a day, six days a week