Opponents Fight Medical Campus Plan on Ohio Wetland Site

Critics say a proposed project could destroy a portion of Ohio's vanishing wetlands. But developers say 15 acres occupied by wetlands in northeast Ohio is the only possible site for a new medical campus.

The Army Corps of Engineers is reviewing a permit for the filling the wetlands for the development of the campus in Trumbull County.

Ohio has lost 90 percent of its wetlands, experts say. Colleen McLean, an associate professor of geological and environmental sciences at Youngstown State University, explains wetlands provide filtration to maintain clean water.

She says the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has already issued a certification approving the project, despite the objections of environmental groups and some residents.

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