Jim discussed the flood plain in the area of the proposed North side C&DD landfill. He brought with him copies of the Army Core of Engineers flood plain maps issued in 1980. The maps had three different zones indicated as A, B, and C; zone A indicated the areas that would receive the most water overflow. He pointed an area on the Northwest corner of the property close to the Weathersfield Township border that would be a flood prone area (zone A). GUARD member Tony Kren volunteered to contact the Army Core to learn more about the maps.
When Jim was a Weathersfield Township Trustee, he fought against three different landfills in the area. One of them was behind McDonalds Restaurant in McKinley Heights, which caught on fire and caused a lot of problems. The second was near the RMI Titanium plant in Niles, which also caught on fire. The third one was on Austintown-Warren road and was in a flood plain. The operator of the Austintown landfill did prison time for the problems he created there.
He also discussed the decline of real estate values that would occur should the landfill go in behind the Golf Dome. His experience with Howard Hanna tells him that home values would definitely
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