As the Michigan Department of Environment Quality phases out land-applied septage and restricts where haulers can offload it, pumpers working many miles from limited receiving facilities face the question, “What am I going to do with it?” The Smiths Creek Landfill in Smiths Creek, Mich., may have the answer.A study by the Watershed Management Advisory Group showed that St. Clair County had no septage receiving facility, and identified Smiths Creek Landfill as a potential site. At the same time, engineers at CTI and Associates Inc., an environmental engineering firm in Brighton, Mich., worked with Larry O’Keefe, former landfill manager, to
