[CPEO-BIF] Traverse City, Michigan gas station sites

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State won't help GT County with cleanup
DNRE: No time or resources for recovery project

BY BRIAN McGILLIVARY
Traverse City Record-Eagle (MI)
June 2, 2010

TRAVERSE CITY - Grand Traverse County will go it alone if it hopes to 
force polluters to clean a badly contaminated site that threatens to 
leach gasoline products into West Bay.

Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment lawyers don't 
have the time or resources to take on a cleanup recovery project at the 
intersection of Front and Division streets, county officials learned.

The decision likely will prevent the state from recovering almost $2 
million owed it for previous restoration efforts there that ceased in 
2004, a troubling turn of events, county officials said.

"I was shocked that the state wouldn't come in at some level," said Jean 
Derenzy, director of Grand Traverse County's Brownfield Redevelopment 
Authority.

...

For the entire article, see
http://record-eagle.com/local/x371472480/State-wont-help-GT-County-with-cleanup

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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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