[CPEO-BIF] Wastewater site, Whitehall Township, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wastewater site redevelopment plan progressing


by Eric Gaertner
The Muskegon Chronicle (MI)
August 25, 2008

WHITEHALL TWP. -- A loan application and a thorough environmental review 
of the former Muskegon County wastewater site in Whitehall Township are 
the next steps in a redevelopment effort that may result in an 
alternative energy production plant and housing.

The township's brownfield committee is overseeing the financing of any 
necessary cleanup before the site's sale to local industrialist Scott 
Erdman is completed. The committee's next meeting is scheduled for 5 
p.m. Sept. 22 at Whitehall Township Hall, 7644 Durham.

Brownfield sites are abandoned, idle or underused industrial and 
commercial properties where expansion or redevelopment is hindered or 
complicated by real or perceived environmental problems. Brownfields 
present challenges to potential developers, whether contamination is 
discovered or suspected, leading the state to develop several incentives 
for redevelopment, including grants and loans available to local units 
of government.

...

For the entire article, see
http://blog.mlive.com/chronicle/2008/08/wastewater_site_redevelopment.html

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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