VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – One Michigan community is chalking up both a win and a loss after a Wayne County judge made a ruling impact waste disposal in the neighborhood.
Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Kevin J. Cox ruled a hazardous waste facility in Van Buren Township can resume importing some radioactive waste from cleanup sites around the country. However, these shipments will not include waste from the 1940s Manhattan Project in New York. That project helped develop the atomic bomb during World War II.
Residents expressed outrage on two fronts: the shipment of the radioactive material and that they appeared to be the last to know. The judge’s ruling amended a previous ruling that barred the disposal site from accepting the radiological material.
Michigan houses one of the handful of sites in the country which accepts radioactive waste. In addition, Michigan boasts one of the cheapest per ton charges for imported waste.
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