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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Environment - 28-year battle over proposed Mallard Lake Landfill featured in IBJ

Chris O’Malley of the Indiana Business Journal has comprehensive coverage of the Mallard Lake Landfill battles in an article dated 1/23/07. Access it here - I'm not sure how long it will be available online. It begins:

ANDERSON—World War II could have been fought seven times over since Ralph Reed and sons got their first big, odiferous whiff of free enterprise.

Even though they’ve yet to build the Mallard Lake Landfill, the Reeds’ dream of big cash from trash has wrinkled the noses of hundreds of residents in subdivisiondotted fields northeast of town since the family asked Madison County to rezone their 254-acre farm in the 1970s.

“This is the 28th year,” said Reed, fresh off of his latest—but in the past always temporary—victory in the courts. “Nobody wants it in their back yards.”

Whether the Reeds finally have won the decisive battle that would allow the landfill’s construction is the big question festering here since last month. That’s when Marion Superior Court Judge Michael Keele upheld an environmental law judge’s 2004 ruling that the Reeds should be allowed to continue seeking a landfill permit.

The lengthy article includes a sidebar with a complete chronology of the effort.

Here is a list of ILB entries on Mallard Lake. This entry from Dec. 13rd references last month's ruling, although I don't have a copy of Judge Keele's ruling.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 23, 2007 08:15 PM
Posted to Environment