Editorial: EGLE, EPA plan to renew Wayne Disposal license

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) has put a legal notice in today’s paper on page 17.
It announces that EGLE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plan to issue a hazardous waste management facility operating license for Wayne Disposal on the I-94 North Service Drive in Van Buren Township unless the public can convince it otherwise at a public session on Sept. 12 at Wayne County Community College or written comments.
They are giving the public plenty of time to speak up, since the public informational meeting and the public hearing runs five hours from 4 to 9 p.m.
You can also attend the hearing part online or by phone only. The details are in the public notice in today’s paper.
The public comment period begins today, Aug. 14, and ends on Sept. 29. Among other places, you can see the draft license online or at the Belleville Area District Library.
The license would allow the facility to begin storing hazardous waste in containers, and to continue disposing of hazardous waste, certain radiological materials, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), waste in its hazardous waste landfill facility. The draft license includes an expansion of disposal volume and the addition of hazardous waste storage.
If you oppose this, now is the time to speak up.