[CPEO-BIF] "Michigan out of cash to clean up toxic sites"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Michigan out of cash to clean up toxic sites

Contamination threatens natural, historic spots

JIM LYNCH
The Detroit News
March 4, 2010

Mio -- Regulars who fish this area of the Au Sable River -- just west of 
here -- call it Two-Foot Bend....

Like thousands of spots around Michigan, however, this place is being 
threatened by an orphan site -- an old industrial property that is 
contaminated, but which has no private ownership liable for the cleanup. 
And state funds that have been used to clean up these sites are nearly gone.

...

Michigan has more than 4,000 such sites, and those are the ones the 
state's environmental officials know about. With the state's economic 
crunch and the flight of industry to other parts of the world, the 
number of orphan sites is growing, but the resources to deal with them 
are not.

To address all of the sites completely -- including everything from 
remediation and long-term monitoring -- would cost the state at least 
$10 billion.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.detnews.com/article/20100304/METRO/3040441/State-runs-out-of-cash-to-clean-up-toxic-sites#ixzz0hEBdnwuK


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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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