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Franklin committee backs unified letter urging DNR to advance landfill expansion permitting
Summary
Waste Management told the Franklin City Management Monitoring Committee that shifting wetland decisions and lengthy DNR completeness reviews are delaying a planned landfill expansion; the committee voted to draft a unified letter of support to the DNR and the city to press for clearer, timely determinations.
Waste Management representatives told the Franklin City Management Monitoring Committee that state wetland reclassifications and repeated completeness findings by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) are stalling a planned expansion of the existing landfill within a footprint the parties previously agreed.
Brett Coogan, a Waste Management representative, said the company has pursued permitting for about two years and has encountered “a lot of roadblocks” from the DNR, which he described as repeatedly “moving the goalposts” on wetland determinations and issuing notices of incompleteness without detailed explanations. Coogan said earlier…
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