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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Testing reveals toxins in soil at city's former Red Cedar golf course
Expert: Public health risk 'extremely low'


by Lindsay VanHulle
Lansing State Journal (MI)
June 16, 2011

The closed Red Cedar Golf Course in Lansing is contaminated with  
metals, including arsenic, cadmium, mercury and selenium, a recent  
environmental study shows.

The elements likely are the result of use years ago in fertilizers or  
pesticides, according to the study's author, Soil and Materials  
Engineers Inc., based in Delhi Township.

The site will be cleaned, but when that happens depends in part on  
the fate of a proposed mixed-use development there.

"Contamination identified ... may impact future redevelopment of the  
Property," the report states, adding that further study of the  
metals' impact "will likely be needed."
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110617/NEWS01/106170322/ 
Testing-reveals-toxins-soil-city-s-former-Red-Cedar-golf-course

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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