[CPEO-BIF] Proposed Meijer store, Lincoln Township , Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Meijer site cleanup ready to begin
41,000 tons of contaminated soil will be removed

By WILLIAM F. AST III
Southwest Michigan Herald-Palladium
December 6, 2009

STEVENSVILLE - The cleanup of the site of the proposed Meijer store in 
Lincoln Township could start as early as this week.

The Lincoln Township Board at a special meeting Friday approved terms of 
a $1.5 million loan from the Michigan Department of Environmental 
Quality to fund part of the cleanup. And once the MDEQ approves the work 
plan, the cleanup can start, officials said at the meeting.

"One big step," township Supervisor Dick Stauffer said as the Township 
Board meeting concluded.

Afterward, the Lincoln Township Brownfield Authority Board at another 
special meeting approved additional loan details. As that meeting 
adjourned, the township's lawyer for the loan said he'd just gotten word 
that Meijer officials had closed on the site purchase with the land's 
owner, LECO Corp.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.heraldpalladium.com/articles/2009/12/06/local_news/1030293.txt

--


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



_______________________________________________
Brownfields mailing list
Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org