[CPEO-BIF] River Raise battlefield park, Monroe, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Battlefield cleanup entering final phase

Charles Slat
Monroe News (MI)
November 19, 2007

Monroe officials have lined up funding to finish the demolition of a 
former paper mill and clear the site for development of a national 
historic battlefield park commemorating the War of 1812's Battle of the 
River Raisin.

Armed with a combination grants and revolving loans, rubble and 
remaining buildings on the battlefield site will be removed and the 
acreage graded in the months ahead, leaving it ready for development of 
an interpretive park.

"The end of next summer, we'll have grass growing," said Thomas Russow, 
attorney for the Port of Monroe and member of the Downriver Area 
Brownfield Consortium.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/NEWS01/111190052

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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