Excerpts from what was posted on Ottawa North TRi-Cities Action Committee:
“WHAT’S THE ISSUE? Consumers Energy has requested approval from U.S. EPA to drill TWO deep injection waste wells on the J.H. Campbell Plant property, very close to Lake Michigan, in order to dispose of “nonhazardous” leachate from the coal ash landfills.
WHY SHOULD WE BE CONCERNED? “Nonhazardous” does not mean “uncontaminated.” It only means that the contamination is not at levels high enough to be labeled “hazardous.”
The leachate will be untreated, and likely contaminated with the same contaminants that are in the coal ash – arsenic, selenium, and vanadium, to name a few. It will be injected thousands of feet into the earth, where it cannot be monitored, and where, as you know, it will be in proximity to Lake Michigan.
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Write to U.S.EPA online and ask for a public hearing. Use the information above under “Why Should We Be Concerned?” to state why. Here’s the link: https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-R05-OW-2025-2730-0001 …”