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Detroit Evening Report: Department of Construction and Demolition gives update on contaminated dirt removal
The Detroit Department of Construction and Demolition gave city council an update on the removal of the contaminated dirt in the city on Monday.
The Department has replaced tainted backfill in more than 100 properties. That’s out of the 450 lots that were identified. The average cost of the fill removal and replacement is about $36,000 per site.
Department Director Tim Palazzo says they have tightened up process for approving construction fill materials over the last several months. “The first thing is that we collapsed the number of sites and sources from which we receive fill material down to seven public pits. These only excavate native sand, gravel, soil from longstanding operations.”
Palazzo says they inspect those sites on a monthly basis and send their staff—as well as a third-party environmental consultant—to oversee operations at the sites. He says they have also started sampling the fill before it even leaves the source site.
-Reporting by Bre’Anna Tinsley
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