Lansing Board of Water and Light, Ingham County
On February 14, 2006, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
entered into an Amendment to Consent Order, Order No. WMD 115-01-98
(Amendment) with Lansing Board of Water and Light (LBWL). The amendment
was to adjust some time frames that, due to circumstances at the site, were
unable to be met. The original consent order was to address contamination of
the site emanating from the landfill. The original consent order required a
payment of penalties, which was met, and required the LBWL to develop a
Remedial Action Plan (RAP) to address the contamination from the landfill.
During the investigation of the contamination from this landfill, other
contaminants from sources other than the landfill were found to overlap with the
contaminants from the landfill making it difficult to determine exactly which
contaminants LBWL would agree to remediate. In the Amendment, LBWL has
agreed to move forward and address the contamination by constructing and
implementing a means to control the source of contamination emanating from the
landfill. After the implementation of the source control has been in place for a
period of time, it will be evaluated and, if successful in controlling contaminants
from the landfill, LBWL will move forward to enter a RAP using the source control
as the final remedy of the RAP. If the source control is not successful, LBWL will
provide a new plan to address any contamination from the landfill that is still
found emanating from the landfill after the source control is in place.