MUSKEGON, Mich. — The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy is continuing to let the public know about industrial contamination at the old SAPPI Paper Mill site in Muskegon , where developer Parkland Properties says it’s building hundreds of homes.

“We do have potentially explosive concentrations of methane out there throughout the site,” said EGLE representative Jason Poll.

Poll told about fifty residents at a virtual meeting on Tuesday that the plan is to reduce the methane risk by elevating the construction to prevent vapor intrusion.

“This whole method here is to cut out that route, to give that methane and off ramp to get out of that path to flow from flowing into the building,” Poll said.

EGLE’s ‘Response Activity Plan’ proposes that the homes have specifi

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