The Granger Company has been given the green light to develop a landfill that will hold restricted materials not currently accepted.

The Department of Environmental Quality has approved Granger’s plan to build a facility to handle impacted soil and fly ash on Wood Road in Lansing Township.

Tonia Olson, a spokesperson for Granger, said it will be years before the company can begin accepting material in the new Type Three facility.

The company already has almost three hundred acres they use to dispose of normal trash from homes and business. They want to turn less than twenty acres of land they already own into another landfill for a different kind of garbage.

“For a Type Three facility it is really restricted to those things that are considered inert or they don’t decompose,” says Granger’s Director of Market Development and Government Relations Tonia Olson. “So it’s construction and demolition type waste, impacted soils, things of that nature.”

The new facility would hold a restricted list of materials including impacted soil and fly ash. By separating the two different kinds of waste, Granger says they’ll be able to avoid contaminating the water and soil near homes and businesses in the area, two of many complaints that people have had about the original landfill.