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Commissioners reject effort to move Waterford waste-transfer proposal off consent agenda amid resident concern
Summary
A bid to pull the proposal for a solid-waste processing and transfer facility at 5351 Williams Lake Road in Waterford from the consent agenda failed after two roll-call attempts. Residents and Commissioner Nelson raised wellhead-protection and community-health concerns; material-management chair defended the project as properly zoned and needed to減
Commissioners on the Oakland County Board voted down attempts to remove from the consent agenda a proposal for a solid-waste processing and transfer facility at 5351 Williams Lake Road in Waterford.
Commissioner David Nelson sought to move the item so the board could postpone and further evaluate the project's environmental and public-health risks, saying the site "would sit directly atop a 10-year wellhead protection zone" and that the county still has a duty to evaluate environmental impacts despite a consent judgment referenced in local proceedings. "Given these…
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