This year Cuyahoga County and the State of Ohio cleaned up a dump for construction debris in East Cleveland. But it鈥檚 not yet clear if the dump鈥檚 operators will have to pay the bill.
Arco Recycling had piled the land high with rubble from demolished buildings鈥攁ngering the neighbors whose homes were nearby.
The Ohio EPA , and the Arco. Cleanup, which finished this spring, ran the state about $9 million.
State officials said they鈥檙e trying to recoup that money now. The EPA took out liens on the property, and the AG鈥檚 lawsuit is scheduled for trial in June 2019.
Neighbors sued Arco, too. They won a default judgment this year because company representatives never showed up in court.
Whether the neighbors鈥攐r the state鈥攇et any money is a different question. One of the people named by the AG as an Arco operator, Christina Beynon, filed for bankruptcy last year.
The other, George Michael Riley, that he was no longer involved with Arco. This year, his attorney sought to withdraw from representing him, citing irreconcilable differences.
Neither Beynon nor Riley could be reached for comment.
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