‘A recipe for disaster’: Protest grows over plan to dump WWII-era nuclear waste near Michigan waterways

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A hearing over the disposal of radioactive waste in Van Buren Township brought out concerned community members and elected officials who clarified that they do not want it near their community.
“This is one of the dumbest ideas I’ve ever seen in my life,” Belleville Mayor Kenneth Voigt said after the hearing. “If you took out a map of Michigan, you couldn’t have found a worse spot to put a landfill.”
Voigt was among several residents, experts, residents, and elected officials who testified that the dumping plan is not only a bad idea but that Wayne Disposal, the company at the center of the plan, has not been transparent in how it has dealt with the situation.