Colerain - Something stinks at the Rumpke landfill, a lawsuit suit filed Monday alleges, because its owner won't fix what is making the areas around the landfill reek and upset residents hold their noses.
Colerain Township residents Jack and Lori Rahn and Carolyn Williams filed the suit in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. They hope to expand it to a class-action suit involving hundreds, "maybe thousands," of residents who live near the landfill and are bothered by the stink.
The suit accuses Rumpke of creating a system that recovers gas from the landfill to be used for fuel, but doing it improperly, allowing bad smells to permeate the area.
Rumpke operates one of the largest landfill-gas-to-pipeline facilities in the world. It recovers 15 million cubic feet of landfill gas a day from three gas-recovery plants operated by Montauk Energy Capital, enough to heat 25,000 households. Recently Rumpke began fueling some trucks with the methane from its landfill.
"While certainly it is normal to expect some odors from a landfill, we believe this landfill could do more to curb its excessive odors and be a better neighbor to the neighboring residential community. Residents should not have to suffer like this for the sake of profit, especially when it is preventable," said Jennifer Lawrence, the attorney who filed the suit against Rumpke.
No shit the garbage dump smells like a big ole pile of poopy. It's a garbage dump. Assholes that sue for shit like this really grind my gears. If you didn't want to smell a garbage dump, you probably shouldn't have moved next to a garbage dump. Pretty simple. If you honestly didn't think that the large mountain of shit was going to smell like shit, then you're just a fucking idiot and have much bigger problems than having to smell rotting trash when you go to fire up the grill or toss some cornhole. More people just trying to cash in on thier own stupidity.
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