Dann, EPA charge Warren Recycling with contempt

COLUMBUS -- Attorney General Marc Dann, on behalf of the Ohio EPA and the state, filed contempt charges Thursday against Warren Recycling Inc. and Warren Hills LLC in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.
The attorney general alleges the company has violated the court's November 2005 judgment entry requiring the company to pay 325,000 to the state, and other requirements imposed by Judge John M. Stuard.
Dann charges that Warren Recycling and Warren Hills LLC have failed to properly manage and control leachate, failed to submit an approvable closure plan, failed to submit a post-closure plan and failed to implement groundwater monitoring.
"Warren Recycling is the poster child for reckless mismanagement of a landfill," Dann said.
No one answered the phone at the telephone listing for Warren Hills, 300 Martin Luther King Ave. S.W.
In January 2005, the U.S. EPA installed a leachate collection system to abate a health threat from hydrogen sulfide gas emissions caused in part by the excessive leachate at the landfill. After abating the public nuisance and then managing the leachate collection for a couple years, U.S. EPA turned over control of the leachate collection system to Warren Recycling.
The attorney general said continued operation and maintenance of the leachate collection system is important in preventing the reoccurrence of the past problems associated with leachate and hydrogen sulfide gas emissions that have plagued the area in the past.