Akron-Area Landfill Closure Deal Moving Slowly Toward Completion

Date: July 10, 2003

Source: News Room

Nearly six months after reaching a deal to close the Hardy Road Landfill for good, the legal work to finalize the pact between Akron, Waste Management and Cuyahoga Falls still has not been finalized. As a part of the agreement, Akron has agreed to pay $1 million and Cuyahoga Falls will pay $800,000 for Waste Management of Ohio to drop the company's original plan to seek to expand the landfill by 106 acres. Another key component in the closing of the landfill, idle since June 2002, is also progressing; the Summit-Akron Solid Waste Management Authority has agreed to raise the county's trash-generation fee from $2.75 to $5 a ton.

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