Helms v. Koncelik

Klatt, Judge.

{¶ 1} Appellant, Joel A. Helms, appeals from a final order of the Environmental Review Appeals Commission (“ERAC”) affirming the final action of appellee, Joseph P. Koncelik, director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (“OEPA”), denying Helms a permit to install components of a wastewatertreatment plant. For the following reasons, we affirm.

{¶ 2} Helms and his family own CountryView South Apartments, a 34-unit apartment building located in North Canton, Ohio. In 1974, the OEPA issued Helms a permit to install a 10,000-gaIlon-per-day, extended-aeration wastewatertreatment…