Severn Green

In1992 my club, the Ashland Cloud Chasers, approached the city of Ashland, Ohio to see if we could use its new soccer fields for flying model airplanes. We received written permission to use the new facilities when vacant, but we didn't know that soccer would become so popular. If there wasn't a game, there was practice, and it lasted from early spring until late fall - the peak of our flying season. The director of parks was very sympathetic, and suggested that we contact the director of the sewage department, because there was an old landfill that covered about 13 acres. The landfill was just east of the city between the city sewage-treatment plant and State Route 42. It was a perfect place for a site, with very few neighbors, but it was a mess.