Background

The 40-acre Duell & Gardner Landfill site is located in Dalton Township, Michigan. From the 1940s to 1975, a municipal landfill operated on site. The site contained about 500 drums in various stages of deterioration, hundreds of laboratory bottles, areas of refuse and debris, and piles of unidentified sludge-like material. Waste disposal operations contaminated soil and groundwater with hazardous chemicals. Following cleanup, the groundwater treatment system shut down in June 2010; contaminant levels remain under cleanup goals. The treatment system was decommissioned in 2012. Long Term Remedial Action by EPA completed in 2012.  On August 29, 2012 the site was ...
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