Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The city is now waiting for the company to submit the application a fourth time.
By JOHN W. GOODWIN JR.
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
GIRARD -- Total Waste Logistics returned its application for a landfill to city officials a third time -- and the city is once again sending the application back to the company with questions.
Health Commissioner Jim Dobson hand delivered the application, detailing deficiencies, to company officials Tuesday afternoon. The city hired Bennett and Williams, a Columbus-based consulting firm, to review the application.
According to Dobson, the application has several deficiencies that still must be addressed. He said the total number of deficiencies had not been determined by Tuesday afternoon. The company, however, is working toward addressing all city concerns with each submission of the application.
"We started out with 70 questions. We then went down to about 35 questions after that. I assume this one will have less than that, but I don't know the exact figure," he said.
Deficiency
Dobson did mention one deficiency in the company's latest landfill application submission.
According to Dobson, the company failed to properly address how it would handle a well discovered within 1,000 feet of the proposed landfill site off of U.S. Route 422 near Creekside Golf Dome. Location of a landfill that close to a well is prohibited by law.
The company, Dobson said, would have four options in addressing the well: Move the line of debris back 40 feet, request an exemption from the health board, buy the property on which the well sits or install a ground water monitoring system.
Dobson said the city will now wait to see if the company submits the application a fourth time. He said the city will have 60 days to respond to the application from the date of that submission.