Cleanup of polluted MichCon site on Huron River in Ann Arbor will start in August

April 4/11/2012

A massive environmental cleanup of the polluted MichCon property in Ann Arbor is set to take place between August and October pending state approval.

Nearly 50 people packed into Cobblestone Farm Tuesday night to hear Michigan Department of Environmental Quality official discuss the plans submitted by DTE Energy.

MichCon has been a subsidiary of DTE since 2001. It ran a manufactured gas plant along the south bank of the Huron River decades ago and left the site polluted — a problem DTE inherited and is now working cooperatively with the DEQ to address.

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