[CPEO-BIF] Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, Michigan (former Chrysler paint plant)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

TRENTON: Students gather to celebrate wetland restoration at refuge


By Anne Sullivan
Southgate News Herald (MI)
December 5, 2009

TRENTON - Anthony Brinson had a chance Wednesday to see how his class 
work applies to the real world.

The 16-year-old junior at Carlson High School in Gibraltar has studied 
the environment in his science classes. He was a visitor with many of 
his chemistry and biology classmates to the Detroit River International 
Wildlife Refuge.

...

The daylighting and wetland restoration is a project that has cleaned up 
a brownfield site, restored wetlands, treated storm water and provided 
for environmental education, Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano said.

The brownfield site had been a Chrysler paint factory, but it now is a 
home for habitat restoration in the only international wildlife refuge 
in the United States, he said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2009/12/05/news/doc4b1aadb5d1b0c746382522.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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