[CPEO-BIF] Buick City cleanup, Flint, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

What's polluted at Buick City? Area residents have concerns over 
contamination but hope for jobs in the future

By Melissa Burden
Flint Journal (MI)
February 7, 2010

Flint resident Roy Hollaway supports the cleanup and proposed intermodal 
project that would create jobs at the former Buick City site, just west 
of his neighborhood along the Flint River. FLINT, Michigan — Ralf G. 
Rudd saw oil and cleaning chemicals soaking the grounds on the northern 
part of Buick City and heard stories from older workers about chemicals 
being poured down the drains all over the site.

"They used to have oil from the presses and stuff that went right into 
the ground," Rudd, 55, a General Motors retiree who worked at Buick City 
from 1976 to 1998, recalling what co-workers told him. "It just 
saturated the ground."

After hearing stories for generations about the pollution at Buick City, 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is giving the public a glimpse 
at the true extent of dangers, for the southern-most portion of the 
storied industrial site.

...

The EPA has recommended a $5.9 million cleanup plan for the 230-acre 
south end, which economic development officials have said is a key step 
to a development plan to turn weeds and concrete slabs into a 
truck-to-rail intermodal hub creating 600 jobs.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/business/mid-michigan/index.ssf/2010/02/whats_polluted_at_buick_city_a.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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