Groundwater Sampling

Every three months Ford Motor Company has a subcontractor come on-site to take groundwater samples from the two monitoring wells that are located behind 50119 Lexington West.  The next such sampling is scheduled for Monday, July 27, 2015 and their subcontractor has requested and received permission from the Board to enter the premises.

Their subcontractor, Conestoga-Rovers & Associates (CRA), has recently merged with GHD Services Inc. and their corporate name has been changed to GHD.

Therefore beginning with the July 27th groundwater samplings, the crew's trucks, hard hats, etc. will be marked "GHD" instead of "CRA". 

Soil Sampling

Beginning on June 25, 2014, crews from McDowell and Associates will be occasionally on-site to perform soil analysis to confirm the limits of the previously-detected groundwater contamination near the northwest corner of our property.  They will be sampling at four different locations along the berm at points north of 49943 Lexington Ave. West and west of 6829 Lexington Ave. North.  Their work should be completed within two weeks. 

Trenching Equipment arrives

UPDATE - Here is video of the fully-assembled one-pass trencher that I took on Saturday afternoon.

Here it is sitting idle, shortly after it has started the trenching process:

Permeable Reactive Barrier construction progress

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Construction of the Permeable Reactive Barrier (PRB) has begun and is proceeding according to the work plan schedule.  On Thursday afternoon (Nov. 7th), work crews were excavating to expose an abandoned sanitary sewer so that it can be cut out from the vicinity of the PRB and capped.   The panorama photo above shows the unearthing of the south end of the sewer line.  The staked square outlined with yellow caution tape to the right of the pick-up truck marks the north end of the sewer segment to be removed.   The PRB will run the entire width of this photo and its location is marked by a series of three parallel stakes with red tape on their tops. Check back here for photos of the trenching activity that will occur during the week of Nov. 11th.

Permeable Reactive Barrier Work Plan

Ford Motor Company has announced the following work plan for the construction of the Permeable Reactive Barrier (PRB) that will be installed on the former Visteon plant property near the northwest corner of the Manors at Central Park Condominiums:

• Week of Oct 28th - locate underground utility lines and clear away brush.
• Week of Nov 4th - begin delivery of equipment and materials; excavate and remove abandoned underground utility lines in the vicinity of the PRB
• Week of Nov 11th – DeWind (Ford's subcontractor) will begin the trenching and installation of the PRB. They anticipate having the work completed by Thanksgiving and during this portion of the work plan DeWind will be working 7 days per week.  Actual construction work will be limited to the daylight hours.

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The approximate location of the PRB is indicated by the red line in the aerial view above. The PRB will be located on the other side of the landscaped berm behind the units at 50087 through 50167 Lexington West. All of this construction work will take place on the former Visteon plant property, not on the Manors' side of the fence.  Manors residents might be able to hear the equipment when work is underway but they will not be able to see any of this work unless they are standing on top of the berm.

Ford Field in Shelby Township Found Safe

From the Shelby-Utica Patch:

Ford Field in Shelby Township Found Safe

There are no signs of chemicals from the former Ford-Visteon plant at the Ford Field complex in Shelby Township. (click here to read the entire article)