[CPEO-BIF] Johnson Products, Salem, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Salem takes aim at industrial site

By Alyson Iott
South Lyon Herald (MI)
January 26, 2006

Not many people remember campaign promises — especially, it seems, the 
people who make them. But by working to clean up the former Johnson 
Products site, Salem Township Clerk David Trent is honoring a campaign 
promise that hits close to home.

The Johnson Products property sits on 8 acres near the intersection of 
Six Mile and Angle roads. During his election run in 2004, Trent pledged 
that he would do his best to have the site cleaned up.

That's a taller order than it sounds. The Johnson Products site is being 
called a brownfield, and is strongly suspected to be contaminated by 
unknown hazardous chemicals.

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For the entire article, see
http://hometownlife.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060126/NEWS19/601260920/1036

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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