Kalamazoo, Michigan city commissioners said Monday that anything from civil disobedience to a lawsuit would be justifiable in preventing a federal plan to dump 132,000 cubic yards of sediment containing more than two tons of toxic waste into a Kalamazoo landfill that officials say is not even cleared to accept regular household waste. Bruce Merchant, the Kalamazoo public services director, said that the federal Environmental Protection Agency officials have admitted not considering the contamination risk to underground aquifers that provide water to about 100,000 customers in the Kalamazoo metro area. Kalamazoo city leaders also say that the EPA's plan to dispose of Kalamazoo River sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls; the EPA plans to ship the sediment to a local landfill.

City to fight PCB dumping EPA to bring contaminated soil from Kalamazoo River to landfill in Milwood neighborhood