K&L Avenue Landfill

Site Information

Oshtemo Twp., MI (Kalamazoo County)
EPA ID# MID980506463
NPL Site Narrative
NPL Factsheet
CERCLIS listing
Alias(es): West KL Avenue Landfill, Kalamazoo KL Landfill, Kalamazoo County Landfill, Oshtemo Township Landfill

Contact Information

Community Involvement Coordinator
Dave Novak (novak.dave@epa.gov)
312-886-7478 or 800-621-8431, ext. 67478

Remedial Project Manager
Tim Prendiville
(prendiville.timothy@epa.gov)
312-886-5122

Project Manager
Mark Henry
(henryma@state.mi.us)
MDEQ Environmental Response Division
517-335-3390

Repositories

(where to view written records)

Kalamazoo Public Library, Oshtemo Branch
7265 W. Main Street
Kalamazoo, MI

Links

EPA Superfund Home Page
Region 5 Superfund
Superfund glossary

Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry

Background

The K&L Avenue Landfill is a former sanitary landfill in Oshtemo Township, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The site served as a local garbage dump for the Township from the 1960s until 1968, when it became the county sanitary landfill. Approximately five million cubic yards of solid waste were disposed at the site. The landfill was closed in 1979, after contaminants were found in residential wells.

Technical Assistance Grant (TAG) and Community Advisory Group (CAG) are two ways the community can get involved. Learn more about CAGs and TAGs

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Site Updates

Landfill Cap Construction Will Resume in Spring, fact sheet, March 2006 (PDF, 2pp, 140K)
Landfill Cap Project Begins this Fall , August 2005 (PDF, 2pp, 125K)
Proposed Changes Let Natural Processes Clean Pollution, fact sheet, April 2005 (PDF, 8pp, 323K)
EPA Proposes Change to Cleanup Plan fact sheet, September 2002 (PDF, 10pp, 369K)
Update Fact Sheet, October 2001 (PDF, 4pp, 205K)
EPA Answers Questions Most Often Asked by Residents, December 1999 (PDF, 8pp, 347K)
Crews Installing City Water to Residents Affected by Ground Water Contamination, August 1999 (PDF, 4pp, 257K)

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Public Meetings

US EPA hosted a public meeting on April 20, 2005 to accept oral and written comments about proposed changes to the cleanup plan for the West KL Avenue Landfill site.
US EPA hosted an open house on November 12, 2003, to answer questions about the site cleanup, including the extension of the municipal water systems to homes affected by the landfill.
Availability Session November 28, 2001