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City First to Get County Brownfield Grants

PONTIAC,MI-Oakland County is passing out grants it earned from the state to investigate contaminated properties and pay for environmental assessments, often a cost that pushes a project beyond hope for a profit.

By Robert Carr | Updated on September 11, 2001

PONTIAC,MI-Oakland County has begun a brownfield redevelopment program here, funded through state coffers. Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson and Mayor Walter Moore held a press conference Tuesday to announce three parcels that will receive money for cleanup along Woodward Avenue.

Patterson gave Moore an $80,000 check to fund a brownfield redevelopment plan that includes three specific properties on the loop around Downtown Pontiac.

Marty Seaman, the solid waste manager for Oakland County, is heading up the new Initiative. He says the main components of the plan will assess current county properties that may contain hazardous chemicals and pollution, create an inventory of these properties and help local units of government to create their own brownfield development plans.

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