2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:56:08 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Harbor Isle, St. Joseph, Michigan
 
City OKs Harbor Isle brownfield
Designation makes development eligible for tax breaks

By DAVID WARFIELD
St. Joseph Herald-Palladium (MI)
October 28, 2009

ST. JOSEPH - The St. Joseph City Commission has approved a request by Harbor Isle Resort developers to have their Marina Island property declared a brownfield, making the developers eligible for up to $670,000 in local property tax credits to help clean up arsenic at the site.

But the decision came with reluctance.

A few city officials and some residents at Monday's commission meeting stated their frustration over Harbor Isle Resort's slow progress and the city's pattern of helping developers whose projects don't materialize.

...

An environmental assessment performed in 1999 for a previous owner showed that soil at Harbor Isle Resort carries an unsafe amount of arsenic. Arsenic contamination was found in the St. Joseph River just northwest of the property, and it was suspected that it got there from groundwater running into the river from upland.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.heraldpalladium.com/articles/2009/10/28/local_news/935190.txt

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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
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