Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Bucolic looks hide threats in Michigan

May 29, 2007 - FOREST TWP. - The dirt road winds past wide green lawns where tire swings dangle from trees. Up on a hill, a woman in a straw sombrero whacks weeds while a large black dog lounges in the sun.

But tucked behind the lilac bushes, plastic well-head pipes poke up like daisies in the fields - the only visible clue that something here is deeply, darkly wrong.

It's been 24 years since the old Forest Waste Disposal landfill was deemed a Superfund site - among the nation's worst toxic waste sites targeted for cleanup by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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