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Ford Airport hires de-icing designer
Prein and Newhof hired by airport board
Updated: Wednesday, 31 Oct 2012, 12:23 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 31 Oct 2012, 12:23 PM EDT
CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) - A Byron Center company was hired by the board at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport to design a de-icing disposal system for the airport.
The board unanimously approved the contract with Prein and Newhof for $1,176,541.
Over the past few years, the runoff of the de-icer has caused environmental problems and longer term concerns.
The problem is that de-icing fluid runs off the airport runway during winters and springs and into a creek that leads to the Thornapple. Neighbors say it has killed the stream, known to them as Trout Creek.
"There's no aquatic life," Erv Gambee, president of the Thornapple River Watershed Council, said in September 2011 . "There's no aquatic life. It's all dead."
The DEQ in December 2010 ordered the airport to come up with a plan to keep glycol out of that creek.
Various plans have previously been proposed, but no plan has been enacted at this point.
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