[CPEO-BIF] Douglas, Michigan "eyes uses" for former Chase/Haworth TCE site

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This appears to be the same site I visited in 2007. See http://www.cpeo.org/brownfields/reports/C-D/DouglasTCE.pdf. - LS]

Douglas eyes uses for old plant site

By Scott Sullivan
Saugatuck/Douglas Commercial Record (MI)
February 7, 2024 


What’s new with 200 Blue Star Hwy., apart from the parcel that once housed Douglas’s largest private employer/taxpayer now marking 10 years vacant?
City council met Monday with its Brownfield Redevelopment Authority to discuss contract planners’ latest conceptual design for the south Douglas gateway property.

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The proposal, Williams says, addresses the top three uses respondents favored for the 7.2-acre site: attainable housing, places to eat and drink, and sites to gather.

One unwelcome outcome was finding trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination that exceeded state potability criteria in surrounding groundwater. Worse, that underground plume had migrated offsite at least 1,600 feet northwest.
Steps thereafter were taken to contain its spread, but some level of TCE — once used as a de-greasing agent — likely still lies in various concentrations under privately-owned, mostly-vacant land west of the now-razed ex-150,300-square foot plant.

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For the entire article, see
https://wilcoxnewspapers.com/douglas-eyes-uses-for-old-plant-site/


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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