http://michiganradio.org en http://michiganradio.org/post/epa-discusses-options-clean-toxic-chemicals-kalamazoo-river <p>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ready to select one of four options to <a href="http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/aoc/kalriv.html">clean-up one of the main contaminators of the Kalamazoo River</a>. The Allied Landfill is full of waste from old paper factories that contain the toxic chemicals.</p><p>At a public meeting Thursday night, EPA officials asked for feedback on the plans. The options range from doing nothing (EPA officials said that's not really an option), to capping the dump, to hauling the one-and-a-half-million-cubic-yards of contaminated waste off to a safer location. Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:17:44 +0000 Lindsey Smith 882 at http://michiganradio.org EPA discusses options to clean up toxic chemicals from the Kalamazoo River