[CPEO-BIF] Traverse City, Michigan gas station

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield to reimburse doctors for cleanup

By BRIAN McGILLIVARY
Traverse City Record-Eagle
September 27, 2008


TRAVERSE CITY -- A group of Traverse City doctors will front an 
estimated $476,000 to help clean contamination left by area gas station 
owners.

The doctors plan to build medical offices at the southwest corner of 
Front and Division streets, and the Grand Traverse County Brownfield 
Redevelopment Authority eventually will reimburse their cleanup costs 
through the capture of local property taxes, said county brownfield 
director Jean Derenzy.

The authority may then file a lawsuit or join a state action to recover 
costs from those responsible for the contamination.

The physicians agreed to sink wells and pump out residual gasoline that 
is floating on top of groundwater at their site on the bank of Kids Creek.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.record-eagle.com/local/local_story_271095537.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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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