The nine County Commissioners help decide the Arbor Hills Landfill plan. A short letter from a constituent carries real weight. This letter points to Bloomberg's national investigation and the site's own monitoring record to ask for independent oversight and automatic public disclosure, not assurances that depend on what the operator chooses to submit. Add a line in your own words, then send it to the county commissioners and state legislators at once, from your own email.
Data visualizations and regulatory records are maintained separately at Arbor Hills Monitor. The Monitor's datasets and code are reproducible; the analysis and policy requests on this site are advocacy prepared by a resident.
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Your letter is on its way from your own email. Every letter helps get these protections written into the minimum criteria while there is still time.
Want to reach the committee that is actually writing these rules? The nine commissioners approve the final plan, but the county's Materials Management Plan Committee is writing the minimum siting criteria now. Only two scheduled committee meetings remain: September 9, and December 9, when it plans to vote to approve the completed plan and send it to the commissioners. You can also write the committee members directly, using the county's own page: Washtenaw County Materials Management Plan Committee: members and emails.
Want to see the full argument first? Read the written public comment a resident submitted to the county, which lays out these requests and the evidence behind them, or the spoken comment she delivered to the county commissioners on September 2, 2026.
Want the evidence behind the heat? Read the SET Evidence Brief, a plain-language summary of the elevated-temperature record at Arbor Hills: what a subsurface temperature event is, the benchmark thresholds the wells are crossing, and what the operator's own filings show.
Want to see where the landfill is running hot? Explore the interactive thermal map on Arbor Hills Monitor. The elevated-temperature wells cluster into an eastern hot core and a western warm field, mapped on satellite imagery alongside the parcels, the two elementary schools, and the school air monitor. Step through the years, filter by temperature, and copy a link to any view. All figures are the operator's own EGLE-filed wellhead readings.
Want to explore the readings yourself? Open the interactive wellfield explorer on Arbor Hills Monitor. Plot any well's wellhead temperature, oxygen, and methane-to-carbon-dioxide ratio over time against the subsurface elevated temperature thresholds, one well at a time or a whole thermal cluster at once. All figures are the operator's own EGLE-filed wellhead readings.
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