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

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cleaning up the wastewater site

White Lake Beacon
November 3, 2008
  	
WHITEHALL TWP - The Whitehall Township board voted to approve the 
Brownfield plan to help finance an environmental cleanup after a public 
hearing Monday night.

The Brownfield plan only enabled the township to apply for a loan to 
help clean up the site's current contamination and collect taxes from 
the site to pay for the loan. The plan did not approve a proposed energy 
plant, a fear of many at the meeting.

"The Brownfield authority doesn't actually have the statutory ability to 
have any say as to what is happening on the land," said Tim Ryan, chair 
of the Brownfield Redevelopment Authority. "Our priority is to take a 
piece of land that is polluted and clean it up to the point where it is 
capable of being developed."

Ryan said that any development plans would have to come before the 
planning commission, requiring further public meetings.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.whitelakebeacon.com/news.php?story_id=17353

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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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