[CPEO-BIF] Central City Park, Westland, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminated park closed

Previously occupied by Road Commission, Westland site has high lead 
levels, state says.

Iveory Perkins and Christine Ferretti
The Detroit News
January 6, 2007

WESTLAND -- The city's new mayor has ordered city crews to fence Central 
City Park and close it to the public, following a scare about high 
levels of lead in the popular meeting place.

One day after taking office, Mayor William Wild announced Friday that 
his first order of business was erecting a 4-foot-tall fence around the 
perimeter of the 100-acre park owned by Wayne County.

It was closed in November, but a walkway around it was open. The move 
followed word from state regulators that further soil tests are 
necessary to isolate the lead.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070106/METRO01/701060321/1003/METRO

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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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