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Win to Stop WMI Pheasant Hill
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Win to Stop WMI Pheasant Hill
Expansion in Western WisconsinCitizens win victory against Waste Management! The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources ruled that WMI could not expand by getting closer than 1200 feet of water wells of residents. Waste Management now says they will make a smaller expansion. Citizens are very willing to share their story with others "to help them with their battle against Waste Management. (See below for email addresses)
Three families enteedr Wisconsin court on March 26th (2006) to stop Waste Management (WMI) from expanding the Pheasant Hill Landfill. Their two cases challenge the desire of WMI to build closer than 500 feet from water wells and the feasibility report by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resoures (DNR).
In Kenosha County Board of Supervisors June 1, 2004 voted 18-9 to approve the expansion, They accepted the WMI legalized bribe of $250,000 per year payment to them. In addition the county budgeted of $500,000 to buy the 23+ acres. WMI was to pay the county for the costs of land purchase.
Located seven miles from the Illinois border, the landfill has been importing million of tons from Illinois. This is another example of WMI finding less powerful communities where they can dump their waste. "We're just a dumping ground," said Caryl Terrell, director of Wisconsin's John Muir chapter of the Sierra Club.
But WMI spokeswoman Lynn Morgan stated that they were doing a job at Pheasant Hill as "permitted by the DNR. "The site was designed and intended to accept waste from a region that includes Illinois," Morgan said.
The landfill is expected to be filled by 2008 or 2009. Plans for expansion would add another 10 to 15 years to its use.
"Shady dealings are happening here and we would like to expose all the corruption that has been going on for too long," said Helen Gohlke, or (click here) one of the litigants.
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