Dive summary:

• Town officials in Andover, Mich. are looking to buy 11.5 acres adjacent to the former city landfill from a farmer who can’t use part of his property due to landfill spillover.
• The landfill is releasing a huge amount of landfill runoff that's damaging neighboring land and waterways.
• Only a fraction of the 11.5 acres actually has trash dumped on it but officials want to make sure they have all the land contaminated by possible runoff.

From the article:

"... 'The back of the dump, you look at the water that’s running out there, feeding into Fish Brook,' he said. 'It would gag a maggot.'

When asked about how the landfill affected Fish Brook, which feeds into the town’s drinking water supply at Haggett’s Pond, Stapczynski said he wasn’t prepared to cover the finer details, though water runoff is 'part of why we’re buying 11.5 acres instead of just an acre.'

'We’ve known this for a period of time,' he said. 'This acquisition has been on our radar screen for this project for five or six years.' ..."