Waste Management alerts communities to April activities

Kathleen A. Klein, Community Relations Representative for Waste Management, last week provided an update to nearest neighbors and community members of Woodland Meadows Landfill.
She alerted those in Romulus, Van Buren Township, and Canton Township to a landfill gas project starting in mid-April and running through mid-June.
Gas collection systems will be installed across the active plateau in the southern portion of Woodland Meadows landfill.
“We will also be building our next lift of waste starting at the west side of the southern portion of the landfill (facing I-275) and work our way across to the east throughout the year,” Klein said. “Prevailing winds come from the southwest so we build our lift at the west end of the site to better manage wind effects and blowing debris.
“We will also be filling settled slopes on the west side of the landfill, and where previously we had an access road, filling in this road area near the upper northwest corner of the site. We will be placing waste where this road is visible from I-275” she said.
WM will also be adding an enclosed flare on the property south and west of the maintenance garage on Hannan Road.
It also will install a sulfur treatment system on Lotz Road in the northeast corner of Lotz and Van Born roads at its closed site in Canton Township. This system will be south of the four existing enclosed flares in this area. This system will remove sulfur compounds from the landfill gas prior to sending it to the Ameresco Renewable Natural Gas Plant, she said.
These fill sequence time frames are subject to variability depending upon the potential influence of waste volumes due to the COVID-19 virus on landfill fill rates.