![]() ![]() ![]() "The crowd has kind of dwindled away, the low turnout tells me they know what they know," Hart said. ![]() Dorothy Hart, the township's supervisor, said she expected a larger crowd given the number of concerns that township residents have had about the property. Only a handful of residents attended the meeting. That will be a three-year process and will change how landfills get authorized, giving townships and counties a chance to help create their own guidelines, Johnson said. Likely sometime in September, EGLE will start a three-year clock for every county to rewrite its solid waste rules, many of which are decades old, to emphasize recycling and composting and other non-trash alternatives. The rules will soon be changing, however, because of a sweeping statewide recycling law signed in March, she said. Unless a new municipal waste landfill touches an old one, "we can't approve it," she said. State approval is currently necessary for a new landfill to be built in the township, or anywhere else that is not connected to a current landfill, said Tiffany Johnson, an EGLE landfill engineer in the Lansing area district. "We want to cover our bases and do whatever we can to protect the area." "Sort of good news, I was pleased to hear it will be more difficult than I expected for them to site the landfill here," he said, referring to the permitting process that is required for landfills. The company has said its Locke Township property is being eyed not as a landfill, but as a potential solar farm using the company's experience in dealing with controversial and regulated developments.ĭuane Pickney, who opposes a landfill, said he was encouraged by what Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes & Energy officials told the township residents. ![]() The company's 2021 acquisition of 560 acres at M-52, about five miles south of Perry, led last fall to rumors Granger was planning to build a new landfill. State officials visited this small community of about 1,800 residents Tuesday to try to quell a months-long controversy fueled by the purchase of large swaths of farmland by a firm on behalf of waste management company Granger Waste Services. ![]()
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