Dive Summary

• Clinton Township has filed a lawsuit against Uni-Dig, a local recycling and dirt business.
• Suit claims that smells from Uni-Dig composting operations are a nuisance and not allowed under township ordinance.  It further claims that Uni-Dig has not received approval to operating a composting business under current zoning.
• The The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has previously cited Uni-Dig for having excessive yard waste at the site. 

From the article:

Reduce the smell of decomposing yard waste, or stop composting.

That's what Clinton Township is hoping a Macomb County Circuit Court judge will order in a lawsuit the township filed against Uni-Dig, a dirt and recycling business on Quinn Road.

"What we're requesting is public abatement of this nuisance, the stench and things of that sort," township attorney Charles Towner said.

The complaint, filed July 3, also states that the site -- zoned light industrial -- does not allow for composting operations under the township ordinance.

It states that Uni-Dig has not requested or received approval to conduct a composting operation by special land use or other appropriate means.