[CPEO-BIF] Northville, Michigan psychiatric hospital powerhouse

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Township to take down old powerhouse on hospital property


by Lonnie Huhman
Obesrver and Eccentric (MI)
April 25, 2013

To properly complete the first step in its clean up of the Seven Mile  
Road property, Northville Township has approved using money from its  
general fund to remove the asbestos from the former psychiatric  
hospital's powerhouse.

Last August, when the demolition and clean up of the powerhouse was  
first underway, contactors found vastly more asbestos than they had  
estimated when they looked inside the boiler units. The cancer- 
causing asbestos was discovered in every crack of the bricks. It was  
then, according to Northville Township's Public Services Director Tom  
Casari, more testing was done and it was determined that more  
abatement would be necessary, raising the cost higher than a $200,000  
federal brownfield grant would pay for.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20130425/NEWS12/304250444/ 
Township-take-down-old-powerhouse-hospital-property

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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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