Over the past several weeks, it’s come to light that Water Street, the 38-acre parcel of downtown, riverfront property that the City of Ypsilanti has been trying to develop for the past 16 years, may be significantly more toxic than we’d previously been led to believe. What follows is the first of what I’m hoping […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged arsenic, Baseline Environmental Assessment, Beth Ernat, Biltmore, Border to Border Trail, brownfield, Brownfield plan, chemicals, Cheryl Farmer, DDCC, development, Document of Due Care and Compliance, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Farm Bureau, lead, MEDQ, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, MSHDA, native prairie, oxic Control Substances Act of 1976, pollution, toxic environment, VOCs, Water Street, Water Street debt reduction millage, Water Street Flats, Water Street Sculpture Park, West Forest |
Someone came to the door this afternoon with an official letter, which they told Linette she had to sign for. I was at work when she called me, and she was understandably concerned. We didn’t discuss it, but I suspect she thought that we were being sued or something, probably for something that I’d written […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Border to Border Trail, brownfield, contamination, flowers, John Barr, legal trouble, native plants, neurotoxic, pollution, seed bombing, soil contamination, Water Street, Water Street Commons, Water Street Sculpture Park, Water Street Trail, wildflowers |
I went to take the dog for a walk this evening and came across the above sign. I had no idea what was going on until I arrived home and found the following note posted to Facebook. THE BORDER TO BORDER TRAIL LOCATED ON THE WATER STREET DEVELOPMENT PROPERTY IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY The […]
