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| East side of Building #16, May 3, 2012. |
Demolition of the former Ford/Visteon/ACH automotive trim plant located just to the west of the Manors began on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Building #16 is the first structure on the property to fall to the demolition crew. Their work hours are from 7:00 AM until 7:00 PM, Monday through Saturday. Building demolition should be completed by around September 1st after which work will continue on the removal of underground utilities, concrete slabs and building foundations. The last phase of the project will involve remediation of contaminated soil, final grading and grass seeding.
I have attended several meetings at the Shelby Twp. Municipal building that have been held about this project to make sure that potential issues with noise, air and water contamination have been adequately addressed. Everything I have learned has been documented on this web page which also includes some recent photographs. Over the coming weeks, I will be adding weekly air quality testing results and photos to track the demolition progress, so you might want to bookmark that page for future reference.
You may have noticed recent contractor activity on the vacant parcel to the north of the Manors and Kensington. That crew was drilling additional water monitoring test wells that will be used to check the underground water quality and verify that it has not been polluted by the contaminated soil on the Visteon parcel.
