Funding cut to impact landfill inspections in Mahoning Cojunty
AUSTINTOWN — Mahoning County’s health department may be forced to reduce inspections of landfills and water wells around the landfills because of a revenue cut and unbudgeted expenses of the county’s Solid Waste Management District.
Because of a $600,000 shortfall, SWMD has said the health department will have to take a 50 percent cut in its allocation, Patricia Sweeney, commissioner of the Mahoning County District Board of Health, said at its meeting today.
The health department’s 2014 allocation is around $290,000.
Sweeney said Lou Vega, director of the SWMD and the county’s recycling division, better known as The Green Team, told her the unanticipated closing of Central Waste landfill in Smith Township last year is the primary reason for the shortfall.
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