Residents hosting town hall about potential Arbor Hills Landfill expansion in Northville Township

SALEM TOWNSHIP, MI. (CBS DETROIT) On Monday evening, residents of Northville Township will have a town hall meeting to talk about the possible expansion of the Arbor Hills landfill in Salem Township.

Their goal is to stop the dump’s owner, Green for Life, from constructing a landfill of that kind on their site, which is located across the street from Arbor Hills and immediately north of Six Mile Road.

When Arbor Hills fills up, the landfill manager would not comment on plans for the future.

Within the next five years, the Arbor Hills landfill is anticipated to fill up. With the land it owns just to the north, GFL could increase its footprint, but locals are organizing to force them to move the rubbish elsewhere.

Locals claim they’ve had enough of the landfill’s odor and blowing garbage since it opened in the late 1960s.

According to David Drinan, vice president of The Conservancy Initiative, “the community has to make a once-in-a-generation decision to determine whether we want this property here to be a dumping ground for Canadian waste and waste out of metro Detroit.”

The issue of accepting Canadian rubbish, which Drinan claims makes up about 20% of all trash in Michigan landfills, will be addressed. According to him, the area’s sole cold water trout stream has been contaminated by dangerous PFAS chemicals and the roads have deteriorated due to landfill operations.

“We’re curious about what more could be happening. The Conservancy Initiative believes that we are the team that has taken on the task of closely monitoring the landfill’s operations. Therefore, we believe it is our duty to inform the community that we are aware of GFL’s ambitions and to begin developing a plan of opposition,” Drinan stated.

According to Drinan, their ultimate objective is to persuade the administration of Washtenaw County to reject any proposals to create a new landfill on the site north of Six Mile Road.

After almost seven years as a news reporter and anchor in South Bend, Indiana, and Minot, North Dakota, Jack Springgate joins the CBS News Detroit staff.

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