[CPEO-BIF] "Former Clothing Care Center site may be contaminated with PCE, TCE, " Ionia, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Clothing Care Center site may be contaminated with PCE, TCE

By Karen Bota 
Ionia Sentinel-Standard (MI)
September 29, 2017 


IONIA - The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is reviewing the former Clothing Care Center site in downtown Ionia to determine how dry-cleaning operations there may have impacted surrounding soil, groundwater and soil gas.

DEQ staff held a meeting with downtown Ionia property owners last week to explain the procedures they are following and to review the timeline. They also answered questions from attendees.

Clothing Care Center operating a dry-cleaning business at 309 and 327 W. Washington St. and Cornell Alley from the mid-1960s to 2006. In 2013-2014 the property was purchased by the city of Ionia. The building was demolished and the property graded and seeded to create public green space.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sentinel-standard.com/news/20170929/mdeq-samples-for-solvents-at-former-dry-cleaners

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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