Board to decide if landfill will operate in 2005

The Ohio EPA suggests that the license be terminated.
WARREN -- The city's board of health will meet Wednesday to consider whether the Warren Hills landfill should get a license to operate in 2005.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has recommended that the board deny the operating license. The board meets at noon in the Community Services Building, 418 S. Main Ave.
Residents have complained for years of a rotten egg-hydrogen sulfide odor, which they say emanates from the landfill and makes them sick.
Last year, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry declared the area around the facility an urgent public health hazard.
The Ohio Attorney General's office says the landfill didn't follow a July 2003 consent order designed to keep the facility in compliance with state and federal environmental guidelines.
The U.S. EPA was notified by the Ohio EPA in August when Warren Recycling Inc., which operates the Martin Luther King Avenue facility, and Warren Hills LLC, a former operator, failed to comply with all of the requirements of a consent agreement reached between the companies and the state in July 2003.
That agreement called for leachate management, hydrogen sulfide containment and gas monitoring.
Steven D. Bell, the attorney who represents Warren Recycling Inc., has said his client has agreed to work with the agency.
Health board denial of the permit could be appealed to a state environmental review commission.