| Member Nowicki commented that a public hearing was held in the |
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| municipal auditorium of Rochester Hills regarding the J & L Landfill on the |
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| Super Fund site. Representatives from the Chicago EPA and the DNR |
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| were present. The J & L Landfill was placed on the Super Fund list in |
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| March of 1989 and the contamination was identified on the site in 1990. |
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| He said that his concern was that they were only putting a cover on top of |
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| the landfill, simply as a bandaid approach. He said that kids have been on |
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| this site with motorcycles and dust has been stirred up. Some of the things |
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| identified in this landfill was lead selenium chromium and other things that |
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| could possibly cause cancer. The EPA and the DNR presented several |
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| alternatives. The Michigan DNR recommends a soil covered three-foot |
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| clear barrier and then a liner, and then 12-inches of drainage layer and a |
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| 42-inch protective layer. He believed that the protective layer would be |
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| about 3-feet of clay cap, 12-inch drainage layer, 36-inch clean fill and 6 |
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| inches of topsoil in the area of about 7-8 feet. He was concerned that |
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| they're covering this up by putting a cap on it and then they're going to be |
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| examining and checking out the ground water and the pollution on that site, |
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| which is down at the bottom from the J & L stuff that was dumped in there. |
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| He commented that this is an expensive way to cover it up. He said it took |
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| them 4-5 years to get to this point. He raised the question on the further |
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| checking of the ground water, if that would take another 4-5 years and |
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| would they come back to dig all that stuff out. He said they really haven't |
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| established any of the toxic hazardous waste going off site. They did |
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| establish that there is toxic hazardous waste in the site. They haven't |
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| determined how far down it goes because sometimes the leche goes right |
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| down through the sand and does not necessarily leave the site at a |
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