Hearing on plan to add 50 years to life of Poland Township landfill

Hearing on plan to add 50 years to life of Poland Township landfill

YOUNGSTOWN

A public hearing will be at 6 p.m. Nov. 15 at the Poland Township Administration Building, 3339 Dobbins Road, concerning a proposal to double the capacity of the Carbon-Limestone landfill in Poland Township.

Mike Heher, landfill manager, announced the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency hearing at this morning’s meeting of the Mahoning County Solid Waste Management District policy committee.

Heher said the expansion would lengthen the active life of the landfill, which is owned by Allied Waste Services, by 50 years. Without the expansion, the landfill would remain active for 30 more years at the present rate of dumping. With the expansion, it could remain active for 80 more years, he said.

“The landfill stays in the same position. It just goes a little higher,” under the proposed expansion, Heher said.

The committee discussed, but took no action on a 15-year solid waste plan for the county. It will discuss the matter further at its 9 a.m. Dec. 4 meeting.