What Lafarge workers, neighbors, contractors, customers and visitors need to know
What Lafarge workers, neighbors, contractors, customers and visitors need to know
Lafarge Holcim's Lordstown Landfill did not operate with a 2022 landfill license and is currently operating without a 2022 license, receives more than 5,000 railcars of out-of-state waste a year and has dumped more than 100,000 railcars since opening in 2004. It also receives 10,000 truckloads of waste per year and has generated more than $150 million in sales.
By law, the Lordstown Landfill is permitted to only accept demolition and construction waste such as bricks, wood, shingles and drywall. Being extremely expensive to dispose of properly in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut, the building demolition waste is purposely crushed, shredded, pulverized rendering it unidentifiable. Then it is often blended with even more costly asbestos, garbage, sewage sludge and household hazardous waste and railed to Lafarge at a fraction of the real market cost. This is called "cocktailing".
TOXIC LAFARGE has accepted thousands of tons of this type of cocktailed waste.
"Cocktailing" is why such "unidentifiable" waste was banned for disposal in demolition landfills by Ohio Law HB 397 in December, 2005. See: ORC 3714.081
Please review the images and reports presented on this site, read the Ohio EPA inspections, and judge for yourself.
This toxic, cocktailed East Coast waste has created massive quantities of 10 different poisonous gases and has sickened people including neighbors, an Ohio EPA inspector and Lafarge‘s own staff. Several were hospitalized.
(See the toxic gas chart in the photo section).
Short and long term symptoms employees, neighbors and inspectors experienced include: Nausea, intense headaches, chronic fatigue, disorientation, “brain fog“, nasal and rectal bleeding, sleep loss, irritability, eye inflammation, anxiety, memory loss and amnesia.
The toxic dust at Lordstown may be just as dangerous to your health. Demolished and pulverized building waste often contains asbestos from insulation and shingles, silica dust from concrete, arsenic from treated patio lumber, lead and cadmium from paint, mercury from thermostats and lights, mold from wood and drywall, fiberglass from bathtubs and showers, micro-plastic particles from just about everything and formaldehyde from paneling.
Lordstown's dust and vapors may also include a wide range of toxins from materials stored in buildings and barns that are not required to be cleaned out before demolition. This includes insecticides, herbicides, solvents, oils, cleaners, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), household hazardous wastes, radium paint and much more.
If you have been exposed to TOXIC LAFARGE‘s Landfill in Lordstown, and are experiencing the symptoms described above, please contact a medical professional ASAP.
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Lafarge knows that NOT spending money on desperately needed environmental protection supports their bottom line.
"Lafarge‘s incidental environmental fines lag far behind the pace of their profits so they make few voluntary improvements and keep it ‘business as usual‘."
December 3, 2022 Holcim’s Lordstown, OH Demolition
Landfill is Pumping a Staggering 20 million Gallons a Year of Benzene and Ammonia Contaminated Leachate into the Local Sewer System
OCTOBER 17,2020 - LAFARGE FINED $778 MILLION BY THE US FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. Lafarge has plead guilty to crimes in Syria involving paying the terrorist group ISIS to help keep their cement operations in production. The millions paid to ISIS was used to to buy weapons to fight and kill US soldiers and enslave Yazidi women. France, Syrian workers and Yazidi women also are in court with Lafarge. Lafarge has recently lost an appeal to similar charges in France's Supreme Court
SEPTEMBER 2022- Lafarge asks to DOUBLE the burning capacity of their landfill gas as the H2S is much higher than consultants anticipated. Read how Ohio EPA approves all of Lafarge's requests:
Lafarge's Lordstown C&D Landfill has been gassing its neighbors with poisonous hydrogen sulfide, carbon disulfide and carbonyl sulfide since 2005. Like the Sunny Farms Landfill, Lafarge takes no "action" to “improve” conditions until absolutely forced to by the Ohio EPA, who in turn takes no action until screaming citizens are knocking down their doors and puking from illnesses.
IN 2020, Lafarge installed a haphazard and dangerous, bottom-of-the-barrel gas collection system per a 2019 OEPA consent order. It actually created worse emissions by releasing deeper, raw undiluted gas upon workers and neighbors. A different consultant, SCS, claimed to have the solution, and like Sunny Farms, Lordstown is now burning H2S, with a cheapy rental burner, and converting it to toxic sulfur dioxide — as if that is an upgrade.
SCS, with all their claimed experience, underestimated Lafarge’s gas, in both concentration and pressure, and has asked to increase the system’s capacity. This letter from the OEPA approves that request (of course). The monitored H2S level at Lafarge’s Landfill averages 8,000 ppm or 8,000,000 ppb hydrogen sulfide or 8 times OSHA’s “instant death” level. As usual, the other toxic gases are not, and have never been, monitored.
Perhaps SCS has not worked with a landfill that excavated through 2 groundwater tables that pour 30 million gallons of water/year into the waste causing a gas-generating bacterial frenzy or a demolition landfill that received millions of tons of illegal wastes including sewage sludges.
Lordstown Landfill Neighbors sue Lafarge in $5 Million Class Action Lawsuit The neighbors have had enough of the stink, the dust, the headaches, gagging, sick kids, humiliation, the do-nothing Lordstown Village Council, and the lies from Lafarge, the Trumbull County Health Department and the Ohio EPA. Multiple media outlets reported in the past few days that legal action against Lafarge has been filed in the U.S. District Court. The documented evidence is overwhelming against LAFARGE and their two decades of GROSS NEGLIGENCE. Over 1,000 violations of the Ohio EPA orders, 500 neighbor complaints, illegal asbestos, proven stream contamination, multiple hospitalizations — it goes on and on. Read here:https://www.wfmj.com/story/47039548/lordstown-landfill-sued-for-dollar5m-by-neighbor-over-dust-and-odor-allegations
OhioEPA Issues "Discretionary Exemption" from requiring an air Permit to Install for a rental gas extraction system.
On May 10, 2022 the Agency approved LafargeHolcim and the Lordstown Landfill to install a toxic gas collection system using a rental flare control system. The design of the system is not on the Ohio EPA's public document server but is likely the system that was designed by SCS 18 months ago. Lafarge was able to stretch out the cost of installing a cheapie system quite a while. The baseline for the system's effectiveness is not defined in the Director's Exemption. The off-site H2S data for all of 2022 has not been provided by the Agency and the official request for the public data is in "legal review" which must be a delay tactic for the hiding the facts of what the neighbors are experiencing. Shameful!
May 18, 2022 Lafarge 'complicity' with ISIS crimes against humanity charges upheld
A French appeals court confirmed that the cement giant Lafarge must face charges of complicity in crimes against humanity over alleged payoffs to Islamic State and other jihadist groups during Syria's civil war, judicial sources told AFP on Wednesday.
Lafarge, now part of the Swiss building materials conglomerate Holcim, acknowledged that it paid nearly $13.7 million to middlemen to keep its Syrian cement factory running in 2013 and 2014, long after other French firms had pulled out of the country.
The appeals court sided with prosecutors who said Lafarge "financed, via its subsidiaries, Islamic State operations with several millions of euros in full awareness of its activities."
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TRUE STORY
"A Neighborhood's Long Struggle with an Offensive Landfill"
Read Parts I through V April 11, 2022
Part I The Nightmare Begins
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"A Neighborhood's Long Struggle with an Offensive Landfill" Part II
April 20, 2022 See: https://www.worldonlinenewsreports.com/article/568189326-a-neighborhood-s-long-struggle-with-an-offensive-landfill
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Lafarge violated its Stormwater Discharge Limits by 1,500%.
Total Suspended Solids (TSS), which can significantly impact water quality, was discharged from the landfill at a concentration of 641 mg/l on a permit limit of 45 mg/l. Copper, a metal contaminant also toxic to aquatic life also exceeded the landfill's permit limit. StormwaterX states "Pollutants such as pesticides and PCBs adhere to the surfaces of TSS and can be transported into aquatic environments in this fashion. High TSS levels are often associated with higher levels of disease-causing microorganisms such as viruses, parasites, and some bacteria..."
Demolition waste often contains lead from soldered pipes, asbestos from floor tile and insulation, mercury from thermostats and fluorescent lighting, radioactive elements from pre-1968 radium watch-painting operations, mold spores on drywall, fiberglass from bathroom fixtures and pesticides and herbicides stored in old barns and outbuildings. Demolition waste can also contain arsenic from wolmanized "green" patio lumber, PCBs from oil soaked wooden factory floors and contaminated paint as well as garage wastes such as oils, solvents, paints, gasoline tanks and asbestos from brakes.
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On March 29, 2022 Lafarge's Lordstown Landfill received a "Warning Letter" from the Ohio EPA for accepting 36.18 tons of regulated asbestos without a permit. Lafarge does not perform waste source inspections and just about anything and everything gets sent there. Lafarge also does not monitor the workplace for asbestos, so it is unknown whether the workers were exposed and then brought home asbestos micro-fibers to their families. second hand asbestosis kills several thousand American a year.
See:
http://edocpub.epa.ohio.gov/publicportal/ViewDocument.aspx?docid=1720641
and
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Lafarge has been indicted by the Government of France for their collaboration with ISIS terrorists in Syria. To keep the profits flowing at their cement plant in Syria, they paid ISIS millions of dollars and provided cement for terrorist tunnels. When ISIS inevitably attacked the plant, the French managers fled in prepared vans, quickly abandoning the local cement workers to their fates.
See:
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The Lordstown Landfill has caused more than 600 complaints from their neighbors and workers
but Lafarge will only make cheapest and flimsiest attempts to remediate things--- and only after ordered to so by the Ohio EPA. So the many problems persist.
As a result of Governor DeWine being "extra friendly" to businesses in Ohio, and with crony lobbyists leaning on Ohio EPA management, follow-up enforcement activity on the Lordstown Landfill has been unimpressive.
The Trumbull County Health Department is responsible for issuing the annual landfill operating license to Lafarge. But Lordstown's 2022 license has been neither approved or denied. However, the health department has received more than $5 million in disposal fees since 2004 and is not an effective enforcement option due to the conflict of interest. The health department should have their licensing program revoked by the Ohio EPA once again.
Lafarge has received more than 30 enforcement letters and two consent orders yet they continue to operate with impunity.
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"Employees and Neighbors of Lafarge are treated no differently than the terrorists in Syria. We are just tools and fools to be kept at bay until they complete their profiteering"
OhioEPA document links about Lafarge's Lordstown Landfill:
http://edocpub.epa.ohio.gov/publicportal/ViewDocument.aspx?docid=1598291
http://edocpub.epa.ohio.gov/publicportal/ViewDocument.aspx?docid=1734010
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Many towns in the U.S. and other countries are pleading with their respective regulatory agencies about Lafarge Holcim environmental recklessness.
Hagerstown, Maryland
Ravena, New York https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Ravena-cement-plant-reaches-850-000-settlement-16140061.php
and
Bath, Ontario
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Staffordshire, UK
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/leek-post-times/20200513/281578062843899
Paris, France
Mfansing, Nigeria https://www.icirnigeria.org/how-lafarges-mining-corruption-cause-untold-hardship-to-mfamosing-community-part-1
Harare, Zimbabwe
Mormont, Switzerland
La Union, Philippines
The list goes on and on...
The quality of our air, water and land and the quality of life of countless people are all degraded from Lafarge's ruthless profiteering.
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If you have smelled the putrid toxic odors around the Lordstown Landfill, call or email:
Ohio EPA inspector Jennifer Carlin (330) 963-1133 Jennifer.Carlin@epa.ohio.gov
or
Assistant Chief Jennifer Kurko (330) 963-1253 Jennifer.Kurko@epa.ohio.gov
Don't waste your time calling the Trumbull County Health Department
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"Lafarge's landfill pays more than one million dollars a year in waste fees to the Trumbull County Health Department, the Village of Lordstown and the State of Ohio."
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