NAPANEE — A group of concerned citizens that has been working to hold corporate giant Waste Management to account for decades is drawing attention to a new proposal for managing toxic runoff from its retired Richmond Landfill dump site in Napanee.

The retired dump site, owned by North America-wide company Waste Management, is located a handful of kilometres northwest of the town proper, near Tyendinaga Township and right at the headwaters of Marysville Creek, according to the Concerned Citizens Committee of Tyendinaga and Environs (CCCTE).

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