EPA to weigh application for Defiance nursery site

9/20/2004

DEFIANCE - The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will conduct a public hearing Wednesday on a wastewater-discharge permit application and draft discharge permit from a Defiance plant nursery.

The hearing on the requests from Garden Ridge Nursery is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Hubbard Family Banquet Room in the Serrick Campus Center at Defiance College.

The nursery, on State Rt. 66, has applied for a permit to discharge treated wastewater from its compost piles to Behrens Ditch and South Branch to Behrens Ditch.