Given the realities, the proposed protection of 445 acres in exchange for killing the ones on-site with an expanded landfill is probably the best deal the public can get. But there are two questions:
1) How does the community that gets the expanded landfill benefit from wetlands 30 miles away?
2) Will anyone hold the officials of the then-DNR accountable for the guarantees they made in the 1990s? Not likely.
The owners of a landfill in Wayne County have an option to buy 445 acres of stunning Lake St. Clair marsh.
But there's a hitch: They're offering to purchase and protect the privately owned coastal marsh along Anchor Bay if the state compensates them by allowing them to fill 31 acres of wetlands at Woodland Meadows Landfill in Van Buren Township.
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/landfill22e_20050822.htm
Posted by Dave at August 22, 2005 09:45 AM