[CPEO-BIF] Metcalf/Mill Pond property, Rose City, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Metcalf mill property posing several problems for Rose City

By Matt Keeton
Ogemaw County Herald (MI)
June 28, 2011
ROSE CITY - The Rose City Council and the Ogemaw County Brownfield  
Redevelopment Authority are seeking resolution to several pressing  
issues surrounding the Metcalf/Mill Pond property, which was deeded  
to the city in the early 2000s, including a concrete foundation  
setting above a dam leading into Houghton Creek which has partially  
collapsed, and threatens to block the creek.

According to Rick Benjamin, secretary pro tem of the Rose City  
Downtown Development Authority, the property once contained a grist  
mill, built on a dam at the beginning of Houghton Creek, purchased by  
Charles Sanbeck, and later sold to Glenn and Helen Metcalf in the  
1940s, who converted it into a lumber mill.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.ogemawherald.com/detail/89120.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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