[CPEO-BIF] Suttons Bay Township, Michigan, park

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Park site needs more soil testing

Leelanau Enterprise (MI)
April 19, 2009

A closing on the sale of some 126 acres of land at the corner of Herman 
Road and Center Highway for use as a community park in Suttons Bay 
Township will occur no later than July 31 following action taken last 
week by the township board.

At its regular monthly meeting on April 8, the board voted 4-0, with 
supervisor Rich Bahle absent, to extend a deadline for finalizing the 
real estate deal from the end of this month to the end of July. Township 
clerk Sandra VanHuystee chaired the meeting in Bahle’s absence.

Township trustee Bill Drozdalski, who serves on the township's Parks and 
Recreation Committee, said a requirement for additional testing of soil 
samples on one corner of the Herman property had been imposed by the 
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and was contributing to the 
delay. He said that earlier testing had revealed some soil contamination 
at the site of an historic automobile service station on the corner.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.leelanaunews.com/drupal/?q=node/6609

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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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