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New Day Dawns For Sunny Farms
John Walker, director of projects for WCA Waste Corporations of Ohio, which owns the landfill, said the company wanted to find an answer to citizen concerns regarding odor from the landfill. After some brainstorming sessions and discussions with various consulting firms, a decision was made to install a landfill gas extraction and flare system to achieve the company's goal to eliminate the intermittent odor detected when passing by the facility, which employs 40 people locally. The year-long project was completed in December. "We're a big enough landfill that we can take a lot of waste, but we're small enough that we didn't have to put the system in," Walker said. But, put it in they did.
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Fired up for a cleaner business
Sunny Farms landfill never smelled so good. John Walker, director of projects for WCA Waste Corporations of Ohio, which owns the landfill, said the company wanted to find an answer to citizen concerns regarding odor from the landfill. After some brainstorming sessions and discussions with various consulting firms, a decision was made to install a landfill gas extraction and flare system to achieve the company's goal to eliminate the intermittent odor detected when passing by the facility, which employs 40 people locally. The year-long project was completed in December.
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The Old Days
In the old days, people thought of landfills as just being dumps - holes in the ground where trash was buried. But now, landfills are highly planned, engineered, and regulated - a good thing for this generation and those that follow. Sunny Farms is no exception. Sunny Farms has two on-staff, Ohio-licensed professional engineers and uses consulting firms that specialize in design and monitoring requirements to help keep its landfill up to code. Sunny Farms hopes to provide a safe and effective landfill to serve Fostoria and the surrounding area.
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