BERLIN – The company looking at cleaning up the Dummer Yard landfill said it has spent more than $2 million studying contamination at the landfill. That testing has found high levels of unsafe compounds.
“The test results show significant concentrations of unsafe compounds in surface water, groundwater and soil samples collected between October and November 2025,” LFOD Northwoods reported. The results also showed dangerous levels of PFAS and PHAS) compounds, as well as hazardous concentrations of certain heavy metals.
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