[CPEO-BIF] ITT Automotive site, Rochester, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City approves first brownfield redevelopment plan

By: Mary Beth Almond
Rochester Post (MI)
December 5, 2017


ROCHESTER — The Rochester City Council recently approved a $2.3 million brownfield redevelopment plan to help clean up the city’s largest vacant property, an environmentally contaminated site formerly occupied by ITT Automotive.

Over the years, a number of industrial uses on the property left behind a host of contaminants — including metals and a chlorinated solvent called trichlorethylene — in the soil and the groundwater, which have migrated into the Paint Creek.

Although the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and ITT worked together to build an underground contaminant wall and install monitoring wells to stop pollutants from entering the creek, officials said the land still can’t be redeveloped without remediation — which has left the property, approximately 3 acres near Third and Water streets, vacant for over 20 years.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.candgnews.com/news/Cityapprovesfirstbrownfieldredevelopmentplan

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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>
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