Seneca County Commissioner Bill Frankart acknowledged under oath that some of his past public statements about a local landfill and oversight of the regional solid waste district were inaccurate and were not corrected, according to a report published Monday by the Advertiser-Tribune.

The newspaper, citing a deposition transcript obtained through a public records request, reported that Frankart was questioned for several hours by attorneys for WIN Waste Innovations as part of ongoing litigation involving the Ottawa-Sandusky-Seneca Joint Solid Waste Management District.

During that testimony, Frankart said he had taken no steps to correct earlier claims he made publicly and in written testimony to state lawmakers, the Advertiser-Tribune reported.

Among the issues discussed was a statement Frankart previously gave suggesting Seneca County had been consistently outvoted by other counties on oversight matters. According to the report, he acknowledged during the deposition that the claim was not accurate during his time serving on the board.

The Advertiser-Tribune also reported that Frankart was unable to provide specific examples, under questioning, to support prior assertions that the landfill had a pattern of regulatory violations in recent years.

In addition, when asked whether he had evidence that landfill operations had caused health impacts or exceeded regulatory thresholds, Frankart indicated he did not have such information, according to the deposition excerpts cited...

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