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Open meeting on landfill issues Monday

Daily Independent (Ashland, KY) - 1/31/2015

Jan. 31--CANNONSBURG -- The regular open meeting for community members working to both understand and find solutions to issues regarding Big Run Landfill will be on Monday.

The group will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Boyd County Community Center and will listen to updates from Boyd County Solid Waste Administrator Bill Fritz, along with other group members and committee leaders, about what is being done to combat landfill nuisances, such as odor control.

The group has been meeting each Monday prior to the regular Boyd County Fiscal Court meetings that take place the first Tuesday of the month at 10 a.m. at the county courthouse.

Ideas for forming a community action group stemmed from the fiscal court meeting at the community center during the summer that turned out more than 200 public audience members who complained about landfill nuisances in the community, primarily the smell.

The group was formed with the intent to create committees focused on ordinance suggestions for the county's new law regarding solid waste management; a state group that researches Kentucky Environmental Protection compliance information; a public information group that keeps up with media such as newspapers, radio and social media appeal; and other similar focus groups.

Fritz has regularly attended both the community and fiscal court meetings and provided updates for members of each. Oftentimes, community members organize appeals and updates that are brought forth during the following morning's court meeting.

Last month, local businessman Tom Wolf stood up at the end of the meeting and voiced his extreme disgust with Big Run Landfill's administration's "excuses" for the site's odor problems and threatened to begin working on a class action lawsuit and asked community group members for support.

LANA BELLAMY can be reached at lbellamy@dailyindependent.com or (606) 326-2653. For Twitter updates, follow @lanabellamy_DI.

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