HUBBARD, Ohio - Monday's Trumbull County Board of Health meeting had to be moved from Hubbard Township hall to Hubbard city council chambers.

Officials knew the crowd would be big - but even that space wasn't enough for the nearly 300 people who came.

 

At the top of the agenda - an application for a permit to build a landfill off Drumond Avenue and Mount Everett Road in the township.

The same company, TransRail America, that tried to establish the landfill there in the early 2000s tried again.

 

 

"What was submitted previously was permit drawings, not necessarily construction drawings, that's why a lot of this detail was not there," Joe Gonda with Buckeye Civil Design told the board.

 

 

But those missing details in the application ended up costing TransRail.

 

 

"That information was ignored and that detail never given, and that in and of itself is inexcusable to accept this application," said Trumbull County Health Commissioner Frank Migliozzi. 

 

And the county board of health agreed in a unanimous vote to deny the application.

 

"I've been there 40 years and I don't want to go anywhere, I love my town," said nearby resident Fred Brown. "It's something that should've never even been considered."

 

 

"It's about the people, the residents, the health and welfare you saw the children here tonight, we are setting up for their future," said township trustee Rick Hernandez.

 

 

Gonda was at the meeting on behalf of TransRail.

He declined an interview, but told 21 News he isn't sure yet whether the company will again resubmit an application for a permit to build the landfill.