ROUNDABOUT GETS COUNTY AID
Some 1,800 residents to share $4.1M pot, each ticketed for $602.42.
Nearly 1,800 area residents approved as class members in a $4.1 million settlement of a federal lawsuit involving odors from a Dayton landfill should be receiving checks — if they have not already.
An attorney for plaintiff Carly Beck in the claim against Stony Hollow Landfill said funds were received the first week of January before the process of sending class members their share: $602.42 in most cases.
“Barring some extraordinary, unusual delay in the mail — which can always happen for a handful of people I guess — I would think just about everybody would have their checks by now,” Beck’s Detroit-based attorney Nicholas Coulson said Tuesday.
Check recipients include residents of Dayton, Jefferson Twp., Kettering, Miami Twp., Moraine and West Carrollton, according to a map of the approved class area.
Odors from the South Gettysburg Avenue landfill also have drawn complaints from residents in Trotwood, Miamisburg, Oakwood and other areas since early 2016, several months before the suit was filed that November.
However, to be eligible for funds area residents had to live within about 2.5 miles of the landfill’s
continued from B1 boundaries, according to the settlement agreement approved in late November by U.S. District Judge Thomas Rose.
“We don’t doubt at all that there are people who live outside the class area boundary who may have smelled an odor that was attributable to that landfill,” Coulson said.
Coulson said anyone who has questions about their checks, claims or rights under the settlement should call his office at 313-392-0015.