[CPEO-BIF] Midwest Foundry , Coldwater, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City looking for 'creative solution' to problems with turning former 
foundry site into public park

By Don Reid
Coldwater Daily Reporter (MI)
March 14, 2008

COLDWATER - For nearly 20 years, the city of Coldwater wanted to turn 
the Marmon-owned former Midwest Foundry site, between Park and Hooker 
streets in the First Ward, into a public park.

It sits as a vast wasteland of weeds, concrete and fencing. That dream 
seemed close, possibly by year's end. But now City Attorney Charles 
Bappert said a hitch developed with Marmon because the land is a 
"Brownfield" site under regulation of the Michigan Department of 
Environmental Regulation (MDEQ). He hopes there is a "creative solution" 
to the problem.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thedailyreporter.com/articles/2008/03/15/news/news01.txt
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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