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FLINT -- More then one thousand trees will be planted at a former General Motors site in an attempt to reviatlize the area and remove contaminants.
The Center for Community Progress will begin the planting on Friday at 1 p.m. at theChevy in the Hole site, located near Kettering University just west of downtown Flint. The ceremony highlights Arbor Day 2012, which is also on Friday.
The trees will hope to remove contaminatnts by absorbing them from the ground and converting them into neutral entities.
Flint is using a $375,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund the project.
Rebecca Fedewa, executive director of the Flint Watershed Coalition, told MLive last year that "it's an exciting prospect for the city and for the river and it will make the site a more welcoming place to go."
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