Early results for monitoring air quality levels around the St. Clair County landfill are in, and they appear to confirm the concerns nearby residents in Kimball Township have been voicing for months.
There’s a detectible smell of hydrogen sulfide in the air — often.
But state and local officials said the levels found shouldn’t mean any major health impacts for the area long-term.
On Friday, the county stated in a news release that it was made aware of the results from monitoring conducted by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy late the previous day.
An outcry among community members emerged last fall, pointing out broader health and environmental concerns surrounding an at-times nauseating smell within a wide radius of the landfill. County officials have attributed the smell to excess gas produced by the breakdown of waste at the Smiths Creek facility.
EGLE reportedly began sampling separately from two air…
