[CPEO-BIF] Michner Plating site, Jackson, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Closed factory may become Michigan’s newest Superfund site

By Paula Gardner
Mlive (MI)
September 18, 2019



A federal clean-up effort in 2015 removed 1,100 containers of chemicals from a closed plating shop in downtown Jackson, but now state and local officials say they need money to halt contamination spreading off-site.

Jackson County officials will vote Tuesday, Sept. 17, on a resolution asking for the 4-acre property to be placed on the National Priorities List.

A federal clean-up effort in 2015 removed 1,100 containers of chemicals from a closed plating shop in downtown Jackson, but now state and local officials say they need money to halt contamination spreading off-site.

Jackson County officials will vote Tuesday, Sept. 17, on a resolution asking for the 4-acre property to be placed on the National Priorities List. 

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“(R)eclamation plans by private developers have failed because of the costs associated with the environmental cleanup of the site,” according to the county’s resolution.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mlive.com/news/2019/09/closed-factory-may-become-michigans-newest-superfund-site.html

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