NEGLEY — The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Penn Ohio Waste to unload trash sitting in rail cars.
The Ohio EPA had told PennOhio to suspend its operations for not obtaining proper permits. Since then, the OEPA sent an advisory letter to the residents of Negley informing the citizens that PennOhio received a temporary 60-day unloading order, giving the company two months to clear the cars, which are near Signal rail yard.
The order followed a complaint from Youngstown and Southeastern Railroad, which said that the rail cars were interfering with its ability to service customers. The railway is out of service as long as the rail cars are sitting there, and YSRR doesn’t know when PennOhio would get the unloading permit.
The OEPA’s response was to allow PennOhio to unload the rail cars currently located at or staged for delivery to the Signal rail yard.
“In order to alleviate the rail traffic issue, the EPA gave PennOhio this permit,” Middleton Township Trustee Greg Lipp said. “This was done strictly to get the rail traffic moving again. They can not bring in any more cars.”
Although it is able to unload about 180 fully-loaded rail cars in the area, everything that is unloaded will have to be taken to a licensed construction and demolition debris landfill somewhere else, but it cannot go to Negley.
According to the letter the OEPA sent to the Negley residents, the order will allow work to take place at Signal from 5:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. OEPA Director Laurie Stevenson said in the letter, “We understand this is a difficult situation for citizens. The Agency takes this action only to preserve essential rail traffic and safety on the lines.”
The need of the new loadout zone in the first place is because the Negley landfill is out of space, so it is attempting to build new cells. However, Lipp believes with the new requirements, the weather may pose a problem.
“From now on, all new cells at Negley have to have a two-foot clay liner in it, which they normally don’t ask for,” Lipp said. “There has to be the proper weather to construct that, and it has to be dry. They won’t be able to do it now.”
While chief of the OEPA Northeast District Kurt Princic said that some work is being done at Negley, no material can go into the Negley landfill until a new cell is constructed.
The unloading order requires PennOhio to send a daily report of the operations at Signal to the OEPA, which must include operating hours, number of cars unloaded, number of trucks loaded, weight receipts for each truck and much more.
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