The Center Township Trustees will augment the grant amount with a match total of $7,000. A total of $84,265 will be used for preparing a groundwater detection monitoring and explosive gas monitoring plan, installing gas monitoring probes and preparing a closure/post-closure plan. The landfill is located just outside the boundary of the Village of Lisbon, off Bittner Road. The surrounding landfill territory, owned by the trustees, consists of about 86 acres. However, the landfill itself (where waste was deposited) encompasses approximately 8.7 acres. Center Township ceased acceptance of solid waste at the landfill on December 31, 1988.

Watching Out for Illegal Dumping
The number of illegal dumping cases has increased at some of the District recycling sites, particularly in Columbiana County. The Calcutta recycling site at the former St. Clair Township Building and the East Liverpool site on 2nd Street between Broadway and Jackson, in particular, have been experiencing dumping of non-recyclable materials on a regular basis. Furniture, clothing, toys, construction debris, and carpeting, to name a few, have been dumped at the East Liverpool site. As soon as the area is cleaned up, more unwanted material appears.

In an effort to curb the illegal-dumping problem, the District has acquired used surveillance cameras from the Carroll County Sheriff's Office. District engineer Chris Jacobs is working with local officials and businesses and plans to install this equipment at Mason Color to monitor the East Liverpool site. Motion sensor-equipped cameras will monitor and record all activities at the site. The illegal dumping evidence collected will be turned over to the East Liverpool Police for further prosecution. The District hopes that prosecution of individuals illegally dropping off non-recyclable materials will reduce, or even eliminate, the problem of illegal dumping.

Columbiana Recycling Site Upgraded
If you recently visited the recycling site near Columbiana City Hall, you probably noticed changes. That's because the site where the District's 30 cubic yard roll-off container sits 24 hours everyday has been encircled with a chain link fence. While the District paid for the fence, Columbiana City Council financed the installation of the concrete pad. The improvement not only increased the aesthetic value of the location, but also made it easier to maintain the site for public safety.

Look more closely and you will see only one gate for two roll-offs sitting on each side of the divide. One side will always be open for the public to drop-off their recyclables while the other side will remain closed and locked. This arrangement prevents overflow of recyclables as the gate will be switched to the other side once the roll-off fills up. Allowing both roll-offs to be used all the time may result in their overflow at the same time. The site is monitored by the District and City employees and also by the Marathon Gas Station staff. The contractor for roll-off transportation is called to schedule pulls before they are completely filled up.

Established in 1995, the Columbiana recycling site is the most used in the District. Initially it was served with a small 16 cubic yard trailer, which used to be pulled twice during the one week per month it was there. Since 1996 when it was converted into a permanent site with a 30 cubic yard roll-off, the number of pulls has been increasing every year. It is now pulled at least two to three times a week. In 2003, it was pulled a total of 124 times compared to only 78 in 1997.

Tire Collection Going Strong
The Total number of tires collected is slightly up in 2003 compared to the previous year. However, the cost for the program went down from $14,156.10 in 2002 to about $9,242.33 in 2003. More than 12,600 unwanted tires were collected in the District during its annual collection events in Cadiz, Carrollton and Lisbon. The District charges a small fee for bringing tires to offset the cost of the tire collection. In 2003, a total of $4,511 was collected. Harrison County (population 16,000) residents continue to bring more tires every year. In 2003, over 2,700 tires were collected compared to about 1,400 tires in 2002. Columbiana County, the District's largest territory, (population 111,000) had more than 7,000 tires compared to over 5,000 last year. Carroll County's (population 30,000) total was about 2,900 tires.

Items	Columbiana County	Harrison County	Carroll County
Appliance/Scrap Tonnage	19	25	21.26
# of Freon Appliances	101	90	109
Unwanted Tires	7,048	2,722	2870
Electronics Tonnage	4.85	6.03	6.52

In 2003, the District Board asked townships and municipalities to take their tires directly to two tire landfills in Minerva and Waynesburg. This new policy was adopted to reduce transportation costs for the District and allow communities to have flexibility in terms of disposing of tires. The District's Saturday collection events were reserved for only District residents. Many communities in Columbiana County such as Fairfield Township and Perry Township, have their own collection events.

Tonnage for scrap metal, including appliances, is down from last year. Also, the number of Freon containing appliances did not increase in 2003. However, the District has received considerably more electronics and the tonnage has jumped more than 50% to almost 31 tons.

Harrison County Program
The Harrison County Recycling & Litter Prevention Program provides litter collection, education and public relation services. The program is funded by the Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention, Ohio Department of Natural Resources. With help from workers at the Department of Job and Family Services, it cleans up county and township roads. Harrison County Sheriff's Department inmates also assist in picking up roadside litter. Every year approximately 200 miles of roads are cleaned up.

In the year 2003, Harrison County had a special project for collecting pop can tabs by recycling and donating them to McDonald's. The restaurant chain helps children receive medical services through a project called Ronald McDonald House.

The education program includes a duck and tin-man puppet show. It's about recycling and what the young people can do about litter. Program Manager Lester Nabb speaks at different organizational meetings and manages a booth at the Harrison County Fair for a week to distribute promotional materials.

Columbiana County Program
The Columbiana County Recycling and Litter Prevention Office is committed to addressing the solid waste and environmental issues facing the residents of Columbiana County, its 18 townships and 12 municipalities. Through a comprehensive program encompassing community programs, awareness campaigns, buy-recycled activities and litter collection efforts, the Columbiana County Recycling and Litter Prevention Office collaborates at the grass-roots level to make the county a cleaner and greener place to live and work.

Community Programs provide educational materials to citizens of all ages. In 2003, more than 150+ programs involving more than 5100 individuals, including civic clubs, fraternal organizations, churches and senior citizens, elementary schools, secondary schools and local colleges and universities. Each group received first-hand instruction on the benefits and attributes of recycling and ways to address the litter problem in the county.

Through the use of a strong media campaign, citizens were informed about Earth Day, River Sweep, America Recycles Day and other activities. Radio ads and print media-newsletters, brochures, recycling fact sheets and newspaper ads were utilized to stress the importance of key components of recycling with emphasis on individual involvement. The Columbiana Street Fair allowed the staff to reach more than 40,000+ citizens from the surrounding area. Educational displays highlighting the Solid Waste District's recycling drop-off sites, tire recycling, etc., were erected in the courthouse to remind visitors to local government that the CCRLP Office works cooperatively with County officials.

More than 300 people participated in county beautification projects ranging from River Sweep to township clean-ups to City Sweep 2003. School groups held paper and can recycling drives and civic organizations in the county participated in and sponsored clean-up activities. In addition, with more than 400+ people participating, the 2003 Tire Collection and Appliance/Electronics Recycling Roundup were major successes for both the County program and the CCH Solid Waste District.

As sub grantees of the county program, the village of Leetonia and the Columbiana County Park District purchased park benches, picnic tables, trash cans, bike racks and signs made from recycled content material.

Carroll County Reports...
Carroll County Recycling and Litter Prevention was involved in three activities during 2003 - Awareness, Education and Litter Collection. Booths and displays at community events and libraries, along with participating in parades, made up the Awareness Activity which had a total of 12 different displays and four parades being seen by approximately 15,519 individuals. Below on the left is a picture of the 2003 Carroll County Fair booth. Some of the items displayed are recycled plastic railings, floor tiles and carpeting, along with the bright orange "Adopt-A-Road" bags on the back wall and the "Recycle, Ohio!" balloon obtained from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention.

The Education Activity works with youth and adults in the county through presentations to classes and groups about litter prevention and recycling. During 2003, the Program Manager, Julie Grunder made 66 presentations to 1,670 individuals. The county/state poster art contest was successful once more at the state level with one winner and three honorable mentions. They are shown in the photo on the right below. Sitting on the bench, from left to right is the winner, Schyler Fennimore with ODNR Division Chief, Ron Colbash. Standing behind the bench that was donated to the school by the winner, Miss Fennimore, are Tasha Lanka, Keirsten Finnicum, Danny Grego, and Program Manager Julie Grunder.

From April through October, the litter collection crew, supervised by Chuck Graber, collected 30.7 tons of roadside litter, illegally dumped couches, tires and general trash. Included in the crew was Dan "Butch" Lombardi, the 2002 and 2003 "Volunteer of the Year". In 2003, Butch volunteered 604 hours toward picking up litter along Carroll County's roads. The "Plant Pride...Not Litter" spring campaign netted 4,760 pounds of trash picked up by 107 volunteers. The Adopt-An-Area program picked up some new groups and lost a few old groups leaving a total of 19 areas adopted by 17 groups covering 32.44 miles of county and township roadways.

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