Commissioners OK additional $23K for gas monitoring at Ashland County landfill

Barry Fortune
·2 min read

Ashland County Commissioners

Thursday, July 14, meeting

Grass is mowed Thursday at the old Ashland County Landfill at Byers Woods. Commissioners have approved an additional $23,000 for gas monitoring at the site.
Grass is mowed Thursday at the old Ashland County Landfill at Byers Woods. Commissioners have approved an additional $23,000 for gas monitoring at the site.

KEY ACTION Approved paying Mannik & Smith Group an additional $23,000 for gas monitoring at the county landfill, based on an EPA recommendation.

DISCUSSION  Commissioner James Justice was absent as Commissioners Denny Bittle and Mike Welch talked about the reasons behind the newly needed money.

Previous Ashland commissioners meeting: Bridge replacement starting this month on County Road 30A; $800K price tag

“On that $23,000, that is additional to our yearly contract with them,” said Bittle. “The EPA has requested some additional monitoring and some well upgrades on that. We didn’t anticipate that at the beginning of the year. We send reports to them all the time and once and awhile they come back with additional requirements.”

Vent pipes protrude from the ground at the old Ashland County Landfill site.
Vent pipes protrude from the ground at the old Ashland County Landfill site.

“They were going to have to abandon one or two of them and then drill a couple of new (wells),” added Welch. “And they were going to make them deeper just to satisfy the EPA.”

The additional landfill money was among 26 appropriations for eight county departments approved by commissioners.

Commissioners also OK'd just over $39,000 in design service fees for the dog shelter project, and 18 various appropriations for juvenile felony custody for wages, PERS, workers’ compensation and Medicare.

The Sheriff’s Department had $75,000 transferred for anticipated remaining year fuel costs to offset higher gas prices.

Guardrail installation and upgrade project bid accepted

OTHER ACTION

  • Accepted Lake Erie Construction’s bid of $299,175 for the guardrail installation and upgrade project, as recommended by County Engineer Ed Meixner.

  • Approved an updated citizen participation plan for the Community Block Grant program. The plan must be updated every five years.

  • Accepted more than $2,000 in checks and cash as dog shelter donations.

  • Authorized Auditor Cindy Funk to release nearly $12,000 for the chip sealing of various streets in the northeast quadrant of Jeromesville.

  • A nearly $800,000 contract with V.O. Menuez & Sons to replace a bridge in Mohican Township was approved.

  • OK'd a one-year, $7,000 contract with Johnson Controls for the fire alarm system monitoring at the county jail.

UP NEXT  Meets at 9 a.m. Thursday, July 21, in the commissioners conference room on the second floor of the County Office Building. Meetings are livestreamed on the county's Facebook page.

This article originally appeared on Ashland Times Gazette: Commissioners OK extra $23K for gas monitoring at Ashland landfill