MDEQ was a major pusher of allowing the Romulus hazardous waste
injection site. Once MDEQ learned that the hazardous waste injection well could
not, under federal rule, be located in a wetland, it fast-tracked a permit to eliminate the entire
wetland area on the site. (See: 260 Mich.App. 54, 678 N.W.2d
444)
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Geo-Technologies - Jim Papas/Sen Debbie Stabenow - Meeting 3/30
The City of Romulus has invited Gov. Jennifer Granholm![]()
, Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin and other
officials to a town hall meeting March 30 to hear residents' concerns about
deep disposal wells.
Environmental Geo-Technologies, owned by Detroit businessman Jim
Papas, proposes to take over the wells, which were closed by state and federal
regulators in 2006 less than a year after they opened. The wells accepted
hazardous liquid waste from various companies, including some in Canada, and
leaked.
The state Department of Environmental
Quality is to decide whether to revoke old permits for the wells, and the Environmental
Protection Agency![]()
is mulling whether to give Papas' firm permission
for new permits. The Detroit Police & Fire Retirement System has invested
more than $40 million in the wells since the early 1990s.
The meeting is set for 6 p.m. at Romulus City Hall, 1111 Wayne Road.