HEATH - As Legend Valley hosts another music festival this weekend, local law enforcement asked people not to call the police if they hear the music from far away.

Heath Police said in a release Legend Valley in Thornville is hosting the bass music festival, Lost Lands, Friday through Sunday and the "extremely loud" music can be heard from miles away.

The website for the festival touts it has 1 million watts of bass.

The area does not have a noise ordinance and while Heath, Granville and Newark do, those ordinances do not apply to music that is generated outside their jurisdictions, the release states.

Police departments for Heath, Granville and Newark all received complaints last year during the same festival, and the release asks for people not to call this year.

"Please do not call to report this noise issue, as it will only tie up phone lines and no agency has any authority to limit or control the volume," the release reads.

The Licking County Sheriff's Office shared on its Facebook page that with more than 30,000 people expected to attend the two-day affair, it will be impossible to avoid significant delays on Ohio 13 south of Interstate 70.

And 11 miles down Ohio 13, the annual Backwoods Fest is happening Friday through Sunday, adding to traffic.

The sheriff's office advises: "So by all means, if you are able to avoid that area and take a secondary route, please do."

Two people have already been arrested at the festival hosted by Legend Valley. Detectives with the Central Ohio Drug Enforcement Task Force arrested Peter M. Ramos, 27, and Taylor J. Hatley, 25, both of Topeka, Kansas.

Ramos allegedly had more than 70 ecstasy pills and was charged with aggravated trafficking of drugs, a third-degree felony. Detectives observed Hatley throw a bag of suspected cocaine into a trash can. Once the bag was collected, officials believed it contained cocaine and fentanyl. He has been charged with possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony.

Licking County Common Pleas Court Magistrate Mattie Klein set bond at $10,000 for Ramos and $5,000 for Hatley.

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