[CPEO-BIF] PFAS-contaminated land next to Huron County, Michigan landfill

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Restrictions placed on PFAS-contaminated land next to landfill

By Robert Creenan
Huron Daily Tribune (MI)
May 19, 2022

New restrictions have been put on county-owned land next to the Huron County Landfill that has been contaminated by PFAS.

The Huron County Board of Commissioners agreed to work with the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy and the landfill to prepare a restrictive covenant for the property. It would notify any future landowners of the McTaggart Road property of contamination and restrict future groundwater and surfaces uses to prevent further contamination.

The landfill is in the process of planning expansions on a 40-acre parcel to its south, which had been in the works for the past five years. John Walker, the operations manager for the landfill, made a presentation during the planning commission’s monthly meeting about how the expansion would include a new detention pond and culvert.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Restrictions-placed-on-PFAS-contaminated-land-17181857.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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