[CPEO-BIF] Boot Lake, Traverse County, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

County agency to pay for study
Former city dump examined for a cleanup

By Vanessa McCray
Traverse City Record Eagle (MI)
May 25, 2006

TRAVERSE CITY - The Grand Traverse County Brownfield Redevelopment 
Authority will pay the city's bill for a preliminary groundwater study 
at a former city dump.

The Boot Lake site on Cass Road was used by Traverse City as a landfill 
in the 1960s and is now privately owned. The city agreed to a request by 
the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to identify 
contamination at the spot and fix it.

One of the city's first steps is to conduct a groundwater study to 
determine what contamination, if any, is at the site and in nearby 
Boardman Lake.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/may/25bootlake.htm

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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